Two Libyan men who hijacked a plane from Libya to Malta and threatened to blow it up have surrendered peacefully, allowing 118 passengers and crew to leave the aircraft before walking out alongside the last of the crew.
The Afriqiyah flight was travelling from Sabha to Tripoli before diverting to Malta.
The Maltese prime minister later announced the weapons used by the hijackers were in fact fake.
It has emerged that the two pistols and hand grenade used in the plane hijack were fake, the prime minister said.
The hijackers have been arrested after they forced a passenger jet to land in Malta.
The hijackers initially held more than a hundred passengers hostage but they and the crew were eventually released unharmed.
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