Seven injured in Iran hijack attempt

An Iranian security official General Mohammed Hejazi has said that no one was killed in yesterday's failed hijack attempt of a passenger plane during a domestic flights.

He was speaking after the English-language daily Tehran Times reported that two of the crew members had been shot dead in a violent exchange after the plane -- which had taken off from Ahvas-- landed at Bandar Abbas.

The official Iranian news agency IRNA says seven people were injured.

According to the Kayhan daily newspaper, members of four Iranian families tried to hijack the plane; security forces reportedly overpowered and arrested the hijackers.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service