Hijacker Who Escaped Recaptured by Swiss
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Hussein Mohammed Hariri, a Lebanese man serving a life sentence for hijacking and murder, was recaptured late Tuesday in western Switzerland after escaping from Bochuz prison last week, police said Wednesday.
Hariri was imprisoned in 1989 for seizing an Air Afrique airliner en route from Brazzaville, Congo, to Paris in 1987. Hariri killed a French passenger on the flight.
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