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Daallo Airlines blast: Somalia sentences two to life in prison
Source: BBC
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Daallo Airlines blast: Somalia sentences two to life in prison
30 May 2016 Africa
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.
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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.
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30 May 2016 Africa
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.
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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.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36411555
