BANGLADESH STARTS PROBING BIMAN’S PLANE HIJACK ATTEMPT
February 1st, 2019
THE BANGLADESH government has started probing an aborted hijack attempt of its national flag carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines’ Dubai-bound flight that had taken off from Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Sunday (February 24, 2019).
The suspected hijacker, whose identity was confirmed Monday as Mohammed Polash Ahmed, of Narayanganj, near Dhaka, and police who said had previously been arrested for kidnapping, was shot dead in a commando operation at the Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong, the Bangladesh army said in a ...
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