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DATE: MONDAY, July 23, 1990                   TAG: 9007230203
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A/2   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: MOSCOW                                LENGTH: Short

SOVIETS ARREST TWO IN HIJACKING ATTEMPT

A student and a bricklayer who claimed to have explosives tried to hijack a domestic flight to Sweden today but the jet's crew apparently didn't believe them and they were arrested, authorities said.

"There were no bombs, no weapons, nothing," Mikhail Timofeyev, the deputy minister of civil aviation, said by telephone.

The two tried to hijack an Aeroflot Tupolev-134 with 74 passengers that was en route to Murmansk from the Latvian capital of Riga, Timofeyev said.

- Associated Press

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