The explosion took place aboard a Daallo Airlines plane following takeoff at Mogadishu International Airport. “It was meant to kill all aboard”, Jamac was quoted by the BBC as saying Saturday.
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Al-Shabaab is an al-Qaeda affiliated Islamist terror group which is engaged in a guerilla war against the Somali government.
But it failed to bring down the Airbus A321-111 plane, which the pilot managed to turn around and land safely in Mogadishu.
From other areas of southern Somalia, Kenyan troops pulled away in January as soon as significant losses were suffered by them in a a assault on their base in elAde.
Security forces had arrested people in connection with the blast, Jama added, although he declined to say how many.
The flight which took off in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, but had stopped off at Mogadishu Airport, was thought to be flying at between 12,000 and 14,000 ft when the bomb went off.
The employees then hand it over to a man who was killed when the laptop explosion blew a hole in the plane’s fuselage, said Abdisalam Aato, a spokesman for the Somali Prime Minister.
All but one passenger survived the event, and the ensuing investigation apparently revealed that the person who died following the explosion was actually a suicide bomber who detonated an explosive device just minutes after takeoff.
A blast which tore a hole in a Somali passenger jet was a deliberate bomb attacks, officials have revealed.
The airport, which adjoins a so-called safe zone, is guarded by troops from the African Union which are deployed to Somalia to defeat terror group Al Shabab and return the country to democratic rule.
There has been no claim of responsibility yet for the attack.
“It was my first bomb”, Vodopivec said.
But a USA government source warned that such tests have a high false-positive rate and further tests are under way.
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Witnesses and experts had been under the impression that a bomb was responsible for the blast.
