Ferry hijacker shot after 12-hour ordeal

Turkish commandos in civilian clothes slipped onto a hijacked passenger ferry and posed as hostages before fatally shooting a suspected Kurdish rebel carrying explosives in a 12-hour drama that ended before dawn yesterday. There were no other casualties aboard the Kartepe, that was hijacked on Friday after it left the northwestern port city of Izmit.

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