被劫持埃及客機降落塞浦路斯

A hijacker who claimed to be wearing an explosive belt forced an Egyptian passenger jet to land in Cyprus on Tuesday with 55 passengers on board.

星期二被劫持的埃及航空公司的客機降落在塞浦路斯機場，劫機者聲稱他身上繫了裝有炸藥的腰帶。這架班機上有55名乘客。

Egypt's civil aviation minister Sherif Fathy said after negotiations all but seven people were allowed to leave the plane, which was originally due to fly from Alexandria to Cairo. Those who remained included four crew members and three passengers.

埃及民航部長謝里夫·法特希說，經過談判，機上除7人外，其餘人都被允許離開飛機。這架客機原計劃從亞歷山大飛往開羅。留在飛機上的7人中有四名機組人員和三名乘客。

Fathy declined to identify the hijacker and said he had not made any concrete demands.

法特希不肯透露劫機者的身份，他說，劫機者沒有提出任何具體的要求。

Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades said the hijacking was not related to terrorism.

塞浦路斯總統尼克斯·阿納斯塔西亞迪斯說，這次劫機行動與恐怖主義沒有關聯。

ive details on where or how the Saudis were detained, but said the Yemenis had been held near the Saudi border.

該聯盟的聲明沒有說明9名沙特人的拘留地點和具體情況，但表示獲釋的也門人一直被拘留在沙特邊界附近。

Shi'ite Houthi rebels seized the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, in September 2014, and in March of last year pushed south to the port city of Aden in an offensive that sent President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi fleeing to Saudi Arabia.

什葉派胡塞反政府武裝於2014年9月佔據了也門首都薩那，並於去年3月發動攻勢，向南推進到港口城市亞丁，也門總統哈迪被迫逃往沙特。

The Saudis responded by organizing the coalition to conduct airstrikes against the Houthis, and later the conflict included pro-Hadi ground troops battling the rebels and some violence along the Saudi-Yemen border.

沙特爲此組織了一個聯盟，對胡塞武裝發動空襲，後來支持哈迪的部隊參與了對反政府武裝的地面戰鬥，在沙特和也門的邊界地帶引發暴力衝突。

The conflict has left more than 6,000 people dead in the poorest Arab nation.

也門是最貧窮的阿拉伯國家，這場衝突已經造成6000多人死亡。