text: Hijack attempt on Dubai-bound plane in Bangladesh | News | DW | 24.02.2019
  Bangladeshi special forces have shot and killed a man who tried to hijack a Biman Bangladesh Airlines plane bound for Dubai. One passenger claimed the suspect started shooting just a few minutes into the flight.
  A Biman Bangladesh Airlines plane was forced to make an emergency landing in the southeastern Bangladeshi city of Chattogram on Sunday after a man allegedly tried to hijack the aircraft.
  The plane was en route to Dubai from Dhaka, with a stopover in Chittagong, when the incident took place on Sunday, Civil Aviation and Tourism Secretary Mohibul Haque said.
  "We didn't have the chance to negotiate. Our commandos had to act swiftly," Rahman said.
  The army official said the suspect, whose name has not been released, asked to speak to his wife or to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
  "All 150 plus passengers are safe," Air Vice Marshall Nayeem Hasan told French news agency AFP, adding that it was unclear what the man's intentions were.
  "We think he is a suspected madman. He is saying that he has a bomb, but we are not sure," Hasan said.
  One passenger told reporters in Chittagong that the suspect "fired twice ... just ten minutes after the plane took off [from Dhaka]."
  An investigation would be carried out to determine whether security lapses had occurred, officials said.
  mm, law/jm (AFP, AP, dpa, Reuters)
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