Accessory to Daallo Airlines flight bombing, identified and linked another attack carried out

Officials of Somali government say they have identified the accessory of the man who died in Daallo Airlines flight bombing and was a suspect linked another attack carried out by the Al-Shabab.

A senior intelligence official who spoke to VOA Somali service said unnamed person whose age is 40, is said to have disguised himself by running electronic shop that sells mobiles and other electronic accessories.

“He is not in jail, he escaped, we have been told that he was last seen in Afgoye town last week,” says the official.

Abdullahi Abdisalan Boodle, who sucked out of plane after explosion was carrying the laptop that contained the bomb which intended to bring down a Daallo Airlines flight.

CCTV cameras released by the Somali government shows Borleh, who was limping, heading for the exit of the departure hall when two men, apparent airport staffers handed him what is believed to be a laptop as they walked past him.

The Serb pilot who landed a jetliner in Somalia with a three-foot hole on its fuselage said Sunday he never doubted that it was caused by a bomb and describes the security surround the airplane at Mogadishu Airport as “zero.”

“If we were higher, the whole plane could have disintegrated after the explosion,” said pilot Vlatko Vodopivec.