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... A US man has been shot dead after hijacking a small passenger plane and injuring two passengers in the Caribbean nation of Belize.

Fourteen passengers were onboard the aircraft when the hijacker, identified as Akinyela Sawa Taylor, took control of the flight at knifepoint. Two passengers were injured, including one who was stabbed in the back.

Taylor ordered the pilot to take him out of the country, but was then shot in the chest by another passenger, Belize's commissioner of police, Chester Williams, told local journalists.

After circling erratically over the coastline near Belize City, with depleting fuel, the passengers' ordeal ended when the plane landed safely at Philip Goldson international airport.

Taylor was pronounced dead at a local hospital, and one of the injured passengers was in a critical condition after being stabbed in the back.

Details of the incident remained sparse, but Williams said passengers narrowly escaped a more serious tragedy as the aircraft ran out of fuel as it landed. ...