2 Hijackers of Jet in Darfur Surrender and Free Hostages in Libya

TRIPOLI, Libya - Two hijackers who commandeered a jetliner from the Darfur region of Sudan and diverted it to a remote desert airstrip in southern Libya surrendered and freed all their hostages on Wednesday after a daylong standoff, officials said. That the hijackers with two handguns commandeered the Boeing 737, with 95 people aboard, soon after it took off Tuesday from Nyala in southern Darfur, near a refugee camp that the Sudanese military attacked Monday. It was unclear whether the hijacking was in retaliation for that attack.