Bomber who blew hole in fuselage of Daallo Airlines plane targeted Turkish Airlines

A suspected suicide bomber who blew a hole in the fuselage of a Daallo Airlines plane last week and forced it to make an emergency landing in Mogadishu was meant to be on a Turkish Airlines flight, the Daallo chief executive said.

The bomber was sucked out of the plane through the one-metre wide hole when the blast ripped open the pressurised cabin in mid-air, officials said.

The pilot landed the plane in the Somali capital, from where it had taken off.