 An explosion that occurred aboard a passenger plane after it took off from Somalia’s main airport on Tuesday, forcing it to make an emergency landing, was caused by a bomb, officials said Saturday, adding they had made arrests.
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“Additional investigations conducted by Somali and international experts have confirmed the explosion that occurred inside the Daallo Airlines (jet) was not a technical problem but was a bomb that was intended to destroy the plane and kill all passengers onboard,” Somali Transport and Aviation Minister Ali Ahmed Jama told a press conference in Mogadishu.
“The security forces have detained people suspected of having involved the bomb that exploded inside that plane.”
The blast punched a one-metre (three-foot)-sized hole in the side of the Airbus A321 about 15 minutes after it had taken off from Mogadishu heading for Djibouti. A passenger identified as Abdulahi Abdisalam was killed, probably after being propelled out of the aircraft in the explosion, investigators said.
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In their initial appraisal, the Somali authorities attributed the blast to sudden air decompression.
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