sourceROME, Oct 4 (Reuters) - A man who hijacked a Turkish Airlines flight on Tuesday was unarmed, working alone and threatened to blow himself up if the pilot did not divert the flight to Italy, Italian Interior Minister Giuliano Amato said.
All 107 passengers and six crew on the Boeing 737 were unharmed in the hijack which ended with the man's arrest in Brindisi airport in southern Italy. The 27-year-old Turk, Hakan Ekinci, has requested political asylum from Italy.
"The peculiar thing about this hijack was that it was done by a lone, unarmed man," Amato told Italy's Senate on Wednesday.
During the incident, the pilot reported that there were two hijackers and the Turkish Defence Ministry said there may be four or five of them. But checks on everyone on board after the plane had landed and Ekinci had given himself up showed he was alone.
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