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Seriously, would you try to get a selfie with a hijacker????

A man named Seif Eldin Mustafa hijacked an EgyptAir flight from Alexandria to Cairo yesterday morning because he wanted to see his ex-wife in Cyprus.  And he had a BOMB strapped around his waist.

26-year-old Ben Innes of Leeds, England was a passenger on the flight.  And when the flight landed in Cyprus and swarms of cops surrounded it . . . Ben asked Seif if they could take a picture together.

Ben says, quote, “I thought, why not?  I figured if his bomb was real, I had nothing to lose anyway, so I took a chance to get a closer look at it.”

Seif was down for a photo, so Ben posed next to him with a grin on his face while a flight attendant took the picture.

You get a perfect look at the bomb in the photo . . . which turned out to be fake, by the way.

Seif surrendered after a few hours and he was arrested.  An Egyptian official said, quote, “He’s not a terrorist, he’s an idiot.”

Take a look at the picture

 

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