ICRC plane hijacked after taking off from Sanaa airport

SANAA, July 24 (YPA) – A plane of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was disappeared from air radars two hours after it took off from Sanaa international airport on Tuesday, a Yemeni security official told Yemen Press Agency.

The plane’s destination was Djibouti. It took off from Sanaa airport at 1:50 pm and it was supposed to arrive to Djibouti at 2:50 pm. However, the plane has not arrived yet.

According to the official, the plane was forced to change its destination when two warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition intercepted it and forced it to change its direction to unknown place.

Ali Ahsan-Zak