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U.S. official: Appears low-tech bomb detonated on plane
[CBSNEWS] A U.S. official said Wednesday that it appears a low-tech bomb exploded on a passenger jet over Somalia earlier this week, CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan reports.No terror group has grabbed credit for Tuesday's blast. The kaboom blew a hole in the jetliner shortly after takeoff and left one man missing. The plane landed safely in Mogadishu. Residents of Balad, a town about 18 miles north of Mogadishu, found the body of a man who might have been blown out of the Airbus 321, said police officer Mohammed Hassan. Abdiwahid Omar, the director of Somalia's civil aviation authority, told state-run Radio Mogadishu that authorities were not sure if the body was the missing passenger. Government officials also said no evidence had been found so far of a criminal act. Mohammed Ibrahim Yassin, CEO of Daallo Airlines, did not rule out that a bomb planted on the aircraft was responsible. "At this stage, everything is possible. We cannot rule out anything at this stage," Yassin told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. Posted by: Fred 2016-02-04 |
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