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Pakistan hangs 1998 plan hijackers

Put at least 130 to death since moratorium lifted

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - Rome, May 28 - Pakistan on Thursday hanged three Baloch insurgents 17 years after they hijacked a passenger plane with 30 people on board.
    The men were executed at jails in Karachi and Hyderabad.
    They hijacked a Pakistani International Airways flight in May 1998 and ordered the pilot to fly to India but the plane was diverted and stormed by troops.
    Pakistan has put at least 130 people to death since lifting a moratorium on executions in December.
   

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