Somalia: Two Somali Airport Employees Detained Over Plane Blast

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.

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