Mauritanian plane hijacked to W Sahara - police

NOUAKCHOTT, Feb 15 (Reuters) An Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane on an internal flight from the capital Nouakchott to the northern port of Nouadhibou was hijacked today to Western Sahara, Mauritanian police said.

''The plane was hijacked. Now it is at Dakhla (Western Sahara) to take on fuel,'' a police officer at Nouakchott airport told Reuters by telephone.

The police officer did not say how many passengers were on board or how many hijackers were involved, but said they wanted the plane to travel to Paris.

The plane had been scheduled to fly on from Nouadhibou to the Spanish Canary Islands.

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