Airport hijack shoot-out
NZPA-Re'uter Djibouti Two passengers were wounded when shooting broke out between hijackers and armed crew in a South Yemen plane on the ground at Djibouti airport, South Yemen, early this morning (N.Z. time). The police said that the shooting was still going on. Three crew members, including the pilot and co-pilot, had escaped from the plane shortly after it landed, but other members of the 10man crew barricaded themselves in the cockpit and were exchanging fire with the hijackers. An ambulance was drawn up near the aircraft and informed sources said that it was likely that the Djibouti National Security Force would intervene.
The plane, a Boeing 707 owned by South Yemen Airlines, was hijacked while on a flight from Aden to Kuwait, carrying about 50 people.
Authorities had refused permission for a South Yemen aircraft carrying commandos to land at Djibouti where the unit intended to storm the hijacked plane.
There was no firm indication of the identity of the hijackers.
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