HIJACKED AIRLINER
Protection from police (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LAHORE, February 2. Police used tear-gas at Lahore Airport last night to disperse Kashmiri youths trying to. force their way to the Indian airliner hijacked by two armed men on Saturday One youth was taken to hospital with head wounds, and a policeman was also hurt. The Indian Airlines Fokker Friendship, which was still in the hands of the hijackers last night, was seized on a flight from Srinagar to Jammu in Kashmir. The aircraft’s 26 passengers and crew have returned to India by road. The police had surrounded the hotel in which they were staying over the week-end, and police and Army vehicles escorted their bus to a border point near the Indian town of Ferozepore, about 18 miles from Lahore.
The head of the Kashmiri Liberation Front, Mr Maqbul Ahmad Butt, accused Pakis tani officials of trickery after they had said that India would send an aircraft to collect the hijacked passengers and crew.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32521, 3 February 1971, Page 13
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