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.
The two hijackers on board the Libyan plane in Malta have grenades, said a Libyan MP who spoke to a passenger.
MP Hadi al-Saghir added it was not clear what their demands were.
Mr al-Saghir said that Abdusalem Mrabit, a fellow member of Libya's House of Representatives, had told him that the two hijackers were in their mid 20s and were from the Tebu, an ethnic group present in southern Libya from where the plane departed.
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