Airliner lands in Lyon after 'hijack'

An airliner with 67 passengers on board has landed in the French city of Lyon after apparently being hijacked from Italy, French officials said.

Authorities in Lyon, France’s second-largest city, said that some of the passengers had got off the plane and that “a terrorist was on board.”

A spokesperson for the National Police in Paris would not confirm whether the plane had been hijacked but said that “the incident was over, without injuries and that a man had given himself up.”

France Info radio said the plane belonged to Italian carrier Alitalia and had seven crew members and 67 passengers on board.