Darfur plane hijacked
A Sudanese plane carrying three former Darfur rebel leaders has been hijacked.
The plane was reportedly ferrying 83 passengers between the town of Nyala in the troubled Darfur region and the capital Khartoum.
A Sudanese hijacker forced the jet to land in Libya, according to reports.
Mohammed Bashir of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) said three of the group's senior members were on board.
He described them as an adviser to rebel leader Mina Minnawi, the movement's land commissioner and one of the architects of the Darfur peace agreement of 2006.
Mr Bashir said: "We had three senior members on the plane, and some other pople. They got on and someone hijacked it."
Mina Minnawi was the most influential Darfur rebel leader to sign a peace agreement with the Sudanese government after alleged human rights abuses in the area. Most groups rejected it.
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