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A flight on the way to Dubai was forced to make an emergency landing in a Bangladesh city on Sunday after an attempted hijacking, officials said.

The Biman Bangladesh Airlines plane had taken off from the capital of Dhaka when it was forced to make an emergency landing at the airport in Chittagong, the airline’s general manager, Shakil Miraj, told Reuters.

Bangladesh Air Force official Mofidur Rahman said at a news conference broadcast live on Somoy TV that there were no casualties from Sunday's incident, and that a suspect had been arrested and was being questioned. Rahman described the suspect as a "terrorist."...

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