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A blast that punched a hole in the fuselage of a plane this week was caused by a bomb meant to kill everyone on board, Somalia's minister for transport and aviation said on Saturday.
One passenger died and two were injured in the explosion on the Airbus A321, operated by Somali company Daallo Airlines. It was forced to make an emergency landing at Mogadishu airport on Tuesday.
United States investigators believe the attack was carried out by Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab, but there has been no comment from the organisation.
"We have confirmed that it was a bomb that exploded in the Daallo Airlines flight. It was meant to kill all aboard," the minister, Ali Ahmed Jamac, told a news conference.
He said authorities were pursuing suspects, without going into further detail.
The porosities in the Mogadishu airport have for long been glaring with need for redress a functional CAA with a fully fledged AVSEC Division or not. Al Shabab's capitalizing on them is but a wake up call and a dangerous one too now that they have graduated from target practising with aircraft on climb or descent with small arms. It is a very worrying start of a trend, in that it clearly shows they are gaining an appetite for aviation's soft underbelly and have begun cutting a niche into the big boys league of international aviation terrorism.
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