Man blown from Somali blast plane ‘was suicide bomber’
Investigators believe a passenger who boarded a commercial plane in a wheelchair may have been a suicide bomber responsible for an explosion that tore a hole in the side of the jet as it took off from Somalia’s capital, a Western diplomat briefed on the probe said. Investigators’ theory is that the man was able to use the wheelchair to bypass rigorous security screening in Mogadishu and then detonated a bomb that ripped a hole in the fuselage but failed to down the plane. The force of the blast ejected the alleged bomber from the cabin and his body fell to earth near the town of Balad, about 32km from Mogadishu, where it was recovered by authorities. The revelation comes amid mounting evidence that the blast aboard Tuesday’s Daallo Airlines flight was a terror attack. <br/>
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Man blown from Somali blast plane ‘was suicide bomber’
Investigators believe a passenger who boarded a commercial plane in a wheelchair may have been a suicide bomber responsible for an explosion that tore a hole in the side of the jet as it took off from Somalia’s capital, a Western diplomat briefed on the probe said. Investigators’ theory is that the man was able to use the wheelchair to bypass rigorous security screening in Mogadishu and then detonated a bomb that ripped a hole in the fuselage but failed to down the plane. The force of the blast ejected the alleged bomber from the cabin and his body fell to earth near the town of Balad, about 32km from Mogadishu, where it was recovered by authorities. The revelation comes amid mounting evidence that the blast aboard Tuesday’s Daallo Airlines flight was a terror attack. <br/>
