LARNACA, Cyprus: The man accused of hijacking an Egyptian plane with a fake suicide belt and diverting it to Cyprus was remanded into custody March 30, as social media buzzed with ridicule about the bizarre incident.
A judge in Larnaca on the island’s southern coast ordered 58-year-old Egyptian Seif al-Din Mohamed Mostafa held for eight days as he made his first court appearance after the March 29 hijacking.
