{"id":33092,"date":"2019-02-24T17:41:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T17:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33092"},"modified":"2019-02-24T17:41:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T17:41:21","slug":"bangladesh-plane-hijacker-shot-dead-after-emergency-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33092","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh plane hijacker shot dead after emergency landing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bangladesh commandos stormed a passenger jet in the country’s southeast on Sunday and shot dead an armed man who attempted to hijack the Dubai-bound flight.<\/p>\n

The suspect,identified by the name “Mahadi” and described by officials as a 25-year-old Bangladeshi man, was shot as special forces rushed the aircraft after it landed safely in Chittagong.<\/p>\n

The 148 passengers and crew aboard the Bangladesh Biman flight BG147 were all rescued unharmed.<\/p>\n

But the suspected hijacker was wounded and died shortly after being arrested, army spokesman Major General Motiur Rahman told reporters.<\/p>\n

“He is a Bangladeshi. We found a pistol from him and nothing else,” Rahman said.<\/p>\n

Muhibul Haque, secretary of the ministry of civil aviation and tourism, told Al Jazeera a female cabin crew member alerted the pilot after she found the passenger’s behaviour suspicious.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“The pilot then made an emergency landing at Chattagram airport,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

All the passengers aboard were evacuated after the airport was sealed off.<\/p>\n

‘Psychologically deranged’<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Air Vice Marshall Mofid, who goes by one name, said he then kept the accused man busy talking on the phone while special forces units prepared a raid.<\/p>\n

“He demanded to speak to our prime minister [Sheikh Hasina],” Mofid said. “He claimed he had a pistol, but we are not sure yet whether it is an actual gun or a fake.”<\/p>\n

The country’s civil aviation chief, Nayeem Hasan, said the suspect had claimed to have a bomb aboard the flight.<\/p>\n

“From the talks and dialogue we had with him, it seems he is psychologically deranged,” Hasan told reporters.<\/p>\n

Another army spokesman, Abdullah Ibne Zaid, said the would-be hijacker allegedly claimed to have a gun and a bomb strapped to his chest.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The army’s special forces conducted the operation and the armed man has been neutralised. The situation at [Chittagong’s] Shah Amanat International Airport is very much under control of the Bangladesh army,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Faisal Mahmud contributed to this report<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n SOURCE:
\n Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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