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| EgyptAir hijack: Jet lands at Larnaca airport | EgyptAir hijack: Jet lands at Larnaca airport |
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| An EgyptAir airliner has been hijacked and forced to divert to Larnaca airport on the south coast of Cyprus. | |
| Flight MS181, an Airbus A320 carrying 81 passengers from Alexandria to Cairo, was taken over after a passenger said he was wearing an explosives belt. | |
| EgyptAir said negotiations had resulted in the release of all those on board apart from the crew and four passengers. | |
| No demands have been made by those in control of the plane. | |
| Larnaca airport has been closed and scheduled flights diverted elsewhere. | |
| Live updates | |
| A local journalist has told the BBC that passengers had been seen leaving the plane. | |
| "The pilot said that a passenger told him he had an explosives vest and forced the plane to land in Larnaca," the Egyptian civil aviation ministry said in a statement. | |
| "The information we have so far is that it is one hijacker. The person has yet to make any demands," Cypriot foreign ministry Alexandros Zenon told French television. | |
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