Belize: Bloody drama in trip paradise – passenger shoots plane leaders | EUROtoday

In Belize, a person armed with a knife kidnapped a small airplane with 16 individuals on board. Several individuals had been injured within the incident, the kidnapper himself was killed, as Belize City’s worldwide airport introduced.

After an nearly two -hour arrival, the Cessna of the vacationer airline Tropic Air was seen there. Security forces within the Central American nation had been deployed.

According to media reviews, the kidnapper was a US citizen who requested to be flown out of Belize. It is alleged to have been shot by one of many passengers at Belize City airport, the most important metropolis within the small nation with round 400,000 inhabitants. The circumstances had been initially unclear. According to the tv channel 5, three individuals had been injured on board.

The airplane was kidnapped shortly after the beginning of the town of Corozal within the north of Belize. The authentic aim was San Pedro in Belize’s Caribbean island of Ambergris Caye, stated the airport in Belize City. The machine subsequently flew in random instructions in a circle till it lastly landed in Belize City. According to the media, she needed to make an emergency touchdown out of lack of gas.

According to the official info, 14 passengers and two crew members had been on board. Channel 5, citing police chief Chester Williams, reported that aside from two US residents, all individuals got here on board from Belize. Tropic Air is a neighborhood airline that serves vacationer locations.