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A Sudanese plane has been hijacked shortly after take-off from Nyala, in Darfur region, Sudanese aviation officials have said. | A Sudanese plane has been hijacked shortly after take-off from Nyala, in Darfur region, Sudanese aviation officials have said. |
The plane was on its way to Khartoum, but has landed in Libya, after first trying to land in Cairo, reports say. | |
An official from Sudan's Sun Air company told AFP news agency that there were 95 passengers on the plane. | |
A five-year conflict in Darfur has left about 200,000 people dead and more than two million homeless. | |
The executive manager of Sun Air, Mortada Hassan, told AFP that the plane had landed at Kufra, an oasis town in the Libyan desert. | |
Arabic satellite network al-Jazeera said the plane initially tried to land in Cairo, Egypt, where it was denied permission to land. | |
Another Arabic news channel, al-Arabiya, said a Sudanese man had hijacked the plane. |