Daallo Airlines blast: Somalia sentences two to life in prison

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HalyeeyQaran

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30 May 2016

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The bomber was the only fatality from the blast

A military court in Somalia has sentenced two men to life in prison for masterminding a bomb attack on a Daallo Airlines passenger plane in February.

Eight other people, including a woman, were sentenced to between six months and four years in prison.

The blast, shortly after take-off from Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, killed the bomber and left a hole in the plane's fuselage.

Somalia's militant Islamist group al-Shabab said it carried out the attack.

However, it admitted at the time that it had failed in its attempt to bring down the plane.

The verdicts were the first in connection with the blast.

Former security official at the main airport in Mogadishu, Abdiwali Mahmud Maow, was given the life sentence, along with Arais Hashi Abdi, who was tried in absentia as he had evaded arrest.

The two were convicted of being members of al-Shabab.

The other eight were convicted of helping to plan the attack, but not of membership of the al-Qaeda-linked militant group.

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A video of the inside of the plane showed the damage

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The plane made an emergency landing at Mogadishu airport

None of the plane's 74 passengers or crew was killed.

The explosion on the Daallo Airlines Airbus 321 flight happened about 15 minutes after take-off, when the plane was at around 11,000ft (3,350m) and the cabin was not yet fully pressurised.

It was able to make an emergency landing at Mogadishu airport, aborting its flight to Djibouti.

Daallo Airlines flies regularly from its base in Dubai to Somalia and Djibouti.

Somalian forces have long been fighting al-Shabab which carries out regular attacks in its quest to establish an Islamic state.

HARUN MARUF

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36411555
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They most likely arrested an innocent person who had nothing to do with it.:kanyehmm:

@waraabe @Mckenzie @Xayd @Freebandz @Duke of Harshaw @Paidmonk @Realwarya @AbdiJohnson @Abdalla @Bielsa @Air Jalam @HawiyeDiaspora:lolbron:
 

Bohol

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True, they always do that to cover up crimes. When Saado Ali was killed they arrested two bystander Madows from the suuq Lol.
 

waraabe

Your superior
I feel sorry for who ever is arrested. I heard they torture innocent people to get a confession out of them then executions and arrests.
 

HalyeeyQaran

Citizen of Southwest State
The accused, Mr. Maow, was arrested because he's "laangaab." There's no justice in the failed state.
 

Mckenzie

We star in movies NASA pay to watch
VIP
It's hard to catch criminals, you're forgetting we're like 30 years behind
 
justice served,neat court rule,there is government in somalia and everyone has to deal with it.
next is ban those individuals who orchestrated the whole ordeal from xaar-geyso and ban all flights from that shthole.
 

waraabe

Your superior
justice served,neat court rule,there is government in somalia and everyone has to deal with it.
next is ban those individuals who orchestrated the whole ordeal from xaar-geyso and ban all flights from that shthole.

We all know hawiye is behind al shabab. foreign aid is what you live for
 
you recieve more foreign aid then us and spend it on eating khat! we will ban all flights to and from hargeysa if another such case is encountered.
 
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