Hijackers free 32
NZPA-Reuter Nicosia Hijackers released 32 of the 80 passengers they were holding aboard a Kuwaiti airliner in Iran, but said the others would be in ■ "serious danger,” the Iranian news agency, IRNA, reported. ! "We warn that we will not bear any threat against the plane and declare we have readiness to blow the plane up,” IRNA quoted the gunmen as saying. The Arabic-speaking hijackers, believed to number five or six,
! i said the 48lihostages .be: treated in a; manner that would enable the hijackers to ‘‘settle our account” with the Kuwaiti Government; Three members of the Kuwaiti Royal family, two sisters [and a! brother, are among those still' aboard the plane at Mashhad] j The hijackers, who took over the aircraft on Tuesday! on a 1 flight from Bangkok to Kuwait,! have warned that the royal trio’ would pay dearly if the demands were not met.
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