More than half the passengers on board a hijacked Libyan plane have been freed at Malta's international airport.
The plane was hijacked in Libyan airspace by as many as two men who threatened to blow the Airbus A430 up.
The pilot diverted to Malta where the jet is now surrounded by the island's troops.
Jurgen Balzan is a journalist at the newspaper "Malta Today".
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Journalist Jurgen Balzan with "Malta Today" says there are reports that two hijackers have sympathies with the former Libyan regime of Muammar Gaddafi.
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