There was no immediate explanation of the explosion from the airline or Somali government officials.
Mogadishu
: Two passengers were injured in an explosion that blew a hole in the fuselage of a commercial plane taking off from the Mogadishu on Tuesday, an airline representative said.
There was no immediate explanation of the explosion from the airline or Somali government officials.
-"Daalo airline was enroute to Djibouti but it landed shortly after it took off. A fire exploded and two passengers were slightly wounded,-" Mohamed Hussein, an agent for Daallo Airlines, the operator of the flight, told Reuters.
Aviation website www.airlive.net said the explosion occurred on flight D3159, an Airbus A321, adding witnesses heard a loud bang.
Daallo flies to several destinations in the Horn of Africa and the Middle East, its website showed.
