Somalia Sentences Two To Life In Prison For February Airline Blast

Visits: 1332
(Rating 0.0/5 Stars) Total Votes: 0
0 0
Share via Social Media

Somalia Sentences Two To Life In Prison For February Airline Blast

A Somali military court sentenced 10 people it said were behind a bomb blast that blew a hole in the fuselage of a plane bound for Djibouti in February, a senior government official said on Monday.

Share

A Somali military court sentenced 10 people it said were behind a bomb blast that blew a hole in the fuselage of a plane bound for Djibouti in February, a senior government official said on Monday.

In the incident, a suspected suicide bomber was sucked out of the Daallo Airlines plane through a one-meter (one-yard) wide hole when a blast ripped open the pressurized cabin in flight, officials said.

The plane made an emergency landing in the Somali capital Mogadishu.

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

Mumin Abdullahi, the deputy prosecutor for Somalia's national security forces, said among those sentenced were a security officer and an Al-Shabaab member who bankrolled the attack."

Abdiweli Mohamed, the security head of the civil aviation, and Areys Hashi, who was the funder but absent, were sentenced to life imprisonment by the court," Abdullahi told Reuters by phone.

"Areys Hashi is a member of al Shabaab who funded the operation," he added.