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Some 157 hostages and an unknown num ber of hijackers remained aboard. The hijackers had released a total of 22 hostages in return for supplies during earlier stops in Uzbekistan, Kazakstan and Russia before arriving at Stansted early today. Broughton said the only requests the hijackers made in Stansted were for food, water, some basic sanitary equipment and unspecified medical supplies. He said police were talking to the released hostages to get more infonnation. A diplomat familiar with the negoti ations in Moscow said the hijackers sought to free a prisoner held in the Afghan city of Kandahar. Afghan media speculated the hijackers were dissidents who wanted the release of Afghan hijacking route Authorities at Stansted Airport, outside London, are negol I was taken over in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday and ton ating with the hi ed to make stoc i Afghan Ariana Airline; Asia, Russia and Englax ihoi an ands at 9lansted Airport, London At approximate! i . Monday, fi9« hostages ased. Approx 11115 a m . 3re are let go \ □ n..V, W Sunday 12 30 a m ESI □ 315, •'V' I™ □ Ismail Khan, a former regional governor who has been held since 1997 by Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban movement. Khan is a member of Afghanistan’s oppo sition alliance, which still rules roughly 10 percent of the war shattered country. Authorities said they could not confirm the nationalities of the remaining hostages aboard the Boeing 727. Earlier, they had disclosed that one passenger has a kidney illness that requires special treatment, but Starling said she did not know if that pas senger was among those released. The state-run Ariana Airlines plane was seized shortlv after takeoff earlv Sunday on a domestic flight tk Afghan capital, Kabul, to iher city of Mazar-e-Sharif. The airliner remained parked i* half-mile from Stansted’smainti An emergency official in ka said there were 20 hijackers atx three passengers released there s to It) hijackers were aboard. The hijackers released nine gers in Moscow, but made no demands, Russian security v spokesman Alexander Zdanovu reporters at Sheremety evo-1 airp Catholic nuns among dead in helicopter crash Authoritie end strike diet does no 1 private orj ■ition. Chile ■equiring a Bg Kommu CRACK.), i •ally giving Jftoney to dr Ion that the; Tin birth a Since 19 as been sen child-beai tg probler tjicir doctor ■arris, who lioptmg eig j her program birth of c ised infant n fault Ha bough ts ant I Howeve y anting to s Crack addict Best-laid pla I Hams’C ! major probl ■jatitistryi hat was ii LUANDA, Angola (AP) — An overloaded military helicopter crashed and burst into llames shortly after tak ing off from southern Angola over the weekend, killing 30 people, officials said Monday. Hospital sources in Lubango said three Roman Catholic nuns were among the fatalities. Twelve people survived the crash, including the air craft’s crew and a 3-year-old child. The MI-8 transport helicopter took oft' Saturday from an air base at Lubango en route to the Angolan cap ital of Luanda, 620 miles to the north, officials said. Airport officials in Lubango said the pilot contacted the control tower minutes after takeoff to say he would try to land again because of technical problems. The pilot also reportedly asked for a firefighting team to be placed on standby. Soon after, the helicopter crashed at the Lubango base. The survivors man aged to step out of the flaming helicopter after it slammed into the airstrip. The nationalities of the victims were not immediately available. Their iden- 100 i O Luanda ■ie grow ing | Ml XICO ( 11 Y (AP) —liu p newborns ha: prisingly smooth conclusionLojlfther misguit ■ ' dbandaec on i! tea's largest university, policer^rgerproblei the mam c ampus Sunday aiidarrstFj^^ j • IS 1 clients.! Atlantic ( )renn ANGOLA Helicopter crash Lubango NAMIBIA pie were not From just |T1026 preg ere aborted ut there, tha ddict. And \ carried to tul equally griir ere stillbor AP titles were not released, and no passen ger list was drawn up before the flight. The Defense Ministry said Monday it had opened an inquiry to determine the cause of the crash. The helicopter apparently was over loaded: It had a capacity for 35 people and was carrying 42. striking students. The raid ended an, deal in which Mexi from President Erne down seemed unat country’s most impc institution from a tiny students with names The Devil. Armed only with shields, about 2.400 marched into an all-night*B|^|376areeum: the student strike council att'.kri Looking; and rounded up about 430 $MiSe:® ee what mol mchidiiiL.’ I lie vie hi lop slnkii.;;.' fP or,crs - Bui I I he sinkers dul nol reer^'4 piclure si and there were no injuries. 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