Passengers taken hostage at Jamaican airport: Report

An unspecified number of passengers have been taken hostage on a flight bound for Canada at an airport in Jamaica, a news website reported on Monday.

According to the report, the incident occurred when the passengers were boarding a CanJet flight from Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay to Halifax, Canada, late on Monday.

Officials would not disclose how many hostages were being held, the network said. About 150 people were scheduled to be on the flight, citing Jamaican police Lieutenant Colonel Derek Robinson.

A passenger, Brenda Grenier, called her husband and said a man apparently had sneaked aboard the plane and had taken hostages, the network reported.

Grenier and her daughter were safe, her husband said by phone from his home in Nova Scotia, Canada.