The World - News from March 18, 1985
An Arab hijacked a Saudi Arabian jetliner over Riyadh but was shot to death by security agents after he exploded a grenade as the Boeing 727 sat on the runway of an eastern Saudi airport, the state-run Saudi Press Agency said. All 76 passengers and 21 crew members aboard the domestic flight were freed before the hijacker was killed at the Dhahran airport, where the plane stopped to refuel. The agency said the hijacker was a citizen of Yemen working in Saudi Arabia.
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