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Somalia says bomb caused plane blast

A member of Daallo Airlines ground crew walks down an aisle inside their airline at Aden Abdule International Airport in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, February 17, 2015. REUTERS/Feisal Omar (Reuters)

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A passenger flight forced to make an emergency landing in Mogadishu on Tuesday was hit by a bomb explosion, Somalia's minister for transport and aviation said. "We have confirmed that it was a bomb that exploded in the Daallo Airlines flight. It was meant to kill all aboard," Ali Ahmed Jamac told a news conference on Saturday. (Reporting by Abdirahman Hussein; Writing by Duncan Miriri)