VILNIUS The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Poland have launched their own inquiries into the forced landing of a Ryanair plane in Belarus, the…
Earlier on Friday, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Caouncil said during an urgent meeting that establishing the facts of the Ryanair airplane.
UPDATE 1-Lithuania trying to identify those who left Ryanair flight in Minsk Reuters 1 hr ago
By Andrius Sytas
VILNIUS, May 28 (Reuters) - Lithuania is working to confirm the identities of the passengers who disembarked from a diverted Ryanair plane after it was forced to land in Belarus, the chief of Lithuania s criminal police said on Friday.
Dissident Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich, 26, and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega, 23, were arrested when the plane landed.
But three other people also disembarked.
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney has said it seems likely they were secret police.
Belarus television aired interviews with three people on Wednesday who it said were the passengers in question.
Lithuania is working to confirm the identities of the passengers who disembarked from a diverted Ryanair plane after it was forced to land in Belarus, the chief of Lithuania's criminal police said on Friday. Dissident Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich, 26, and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega, 23, were arrested when the plane landed. Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney has said it seems likely they were secret police.