Newsletter Newsletters Events Events Podcasts Videos Africanews
Loader
Advertisement

Two jailed for life over Somali airline blast

Two jailed for life over Somali airline blast
Copyright 
By Euronews
Published on
Share Comments
Share Close Button
Copy/paste the article video embed link below: Copy to clipboard Copied

A Somali military court on Monday jailed 10 people it said were behind a bomb blast that blew a hole in a Daallo Airlines plane bound for Djibouti in…

A Somali military court on Monday jailed 10 people it said were behind a bomb blast that blew a hole in
a Daallo Airlines plane bound for Djibouti in February.

ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT

Two were given life terms.

A suspected suicide bomber was sucked out through the hole when the blast ripped open the cabin in flight. The plane, which had taken off from Mogadishu, made an emergency landing in the Somali capital.

Somalia’s al Shabaab insurgents said they were behind the blast.

Go to accessibility shortcuts
Share Comments

Read more

Begoña Gómez, wife of Prime Minister Sánchez, to be tried for influence peddling

New Paris mayor vows to end all sexual violence in schools with €20m action plan

Fire at chemical plant in Russia’s Nizhnekamsk leaves three dead