(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-08-14 14:56

Two airplane hijackers were repatriated back to the Chinese mainland from Taiwan on Tuesday.

Yang Mingde and Lin Wenqiang, who hijacked a passenger plane from the mainland to Taiwan in 1993, were handed over at 11:40 a.m. Tuesday in the Mazu Island, off the east coast of Fujian Province, to officers from Shandong Provincial Public Security Bureau.

The two hijackers arrived at Fuzhou, capital of Fujian, at around 1 p.m. under police escort aboard a ship and would fly to Shandong later.

No more details are available so far from the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council.

The repatriation was made in accordance with the Jinmen Agreement, signed in 1990 between Red Cross organizations on both sides of the Taiwan Strait over repatriating suspects and criminals back and forth.