Somalia
Bomb on Board the Somali flier?
In a passenger plane just after the Start in Mogadishu fire broke out. The circumstances are still unclear. It is now a dead speech, and of a bomb. Is it a terrorist attack?
The Pilot goes from a bomb attack on the Somali plane. As the Serbian newspaper “Blic” reported, the 64-year-old Serbian Vladimir Vodopivec his suspicion of a friend. The Explosion have the navigation system, however, is not damaged, so that he can safely make an emergency landing.
US investigators seem to go on the assumption that a bomb fire in the machine has caused. This was announced from government circles. Forensic evidence was missing so far, however. In addition, have no group responsibility for action taken, it was said.
Technical Problems?
The machine of the airline Daalo Airlines was on Tuesday in the Somali capital of Mogadishu in the direction of Djibouti started. Shortly afterwards broke out on Board of the aircraft fire. An Explosion had about the right wing a hole of about a Meter in diameter in the hull cracked. A representative of the airline had a technical Problem spoken.
On Board were 74 passengers, of which previous Polizeiangaben according to two slightly injured have been. Somali experts now believe that a man in the Explosion from the machine, ejected and killed. When you place Bal’ad, around 30 kilometres outside the capital, opened parts of the body should be identified as a senior official from Mogadishu told.
The hole in the fuselage of the airplane – passengers fled in the rear part of the machine
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