The top executive of the airline whose jetliner was damaged in an explosion shortly after takeoff from Somalia this week said on Thursday that investigators had found what appeared to be residue from explosives, though he cautioned that the findings were inconclusive.
Still, the preliminary discovery lends weight to the possibility that a bomb was to blame for the blast that tore through the Airbus 321 shortly after takeoff from the Somali capital, Mogadishu. “There’s a residue, they’re saying, of explosives,” said the chief executive officer of Daallo Airlines, Mohammed Ibrahim Yassin, at the carrier’s corporate office in Dubai. “But that cannot really make 100 percent that it’s a bomb,” he added, saying that he expects initial findings to be released in a matter of days. The jet was carrying 74 passengers when the explosion struck. Somalia’s government confirmed Thursday that a passenger who had been missing since the explosion had died but gave no details. Residents in the town of Balad, about 18 miles north of Mogadishu, found the body of a man who may have been blown from the plane.
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