Event

2025 Samaritan's Purse Cessna 208 hijacking

2 Dec 2025 · 7.72° N, 27.98° E

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When
2 Dec 2025
Kind
Event
Coordinates
7.72° N, 27.98° E

Placed at the area around the site its text names, Wau Airport.

Summary

2025 Samaritan's Purse Cessna 208 hijacking: A gunman demanding to be flown to Chad hijacks a Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft owned by Samaritan's Purse that was carrying out a humanitarian relief mission from Juba to Maiwut County. He is arrested at Wau Airport during a refueling stop.

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