Two Somali Airport Employees Detained Over Plane Mid-Air Blast

Sunday, February 7, 2016

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Somali authorities arrested two employees of the Mogadishu airport in connection with an explosion on board a Somalian passenger plane caused by a bomb, a spokesman for the Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke said.

On Tuesday, a blast tore a hole in the side of the Airbus A321, belonging to the Dubai-based Daallo Airlines, minutes after it took off from the Mogadishu airport to fly to Djibouti.

"There is a CC video showing 2 terror suspects hiding a laptop #Somalia," Abdisalam Aato wrote in his official Twitter account on Saturday.

The video released by Somali intelligence services showed the laptop, believed to have contained a bomb, had been taken by an only victim of the blast, Abdullahi Abdisalam Borleh, who was sucked out of the plane from the gash in the fuselage.

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