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Two sentenced to life in prison over Somali plane 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 BBC reports. The blast, shortly after take-off from Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, […]
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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 BBC reports.

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.

A 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 for being members of al-Shabab.

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Source:The Nation Nigeria

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