NEAR-DISASTER  A one-meter hole is seen on the side of a Daallo Airlines jetliner after it returned safely to Mogadishu despite a suicide bomber exploding a bomb hidden in a laptop shortly after takeoff on February 4. The bomber, whose badly charred remains were found some 30 kilometers from Mogadishu, was the only fatality in the attack. AFP PHOTO
NEAR-DISASTER
A one-meter hole is seen on the side of a Daallo Airlines jetliner after it returned safely to Mogadishu despite a suicide bomber exploding a bomb hidden in a laptop shortly after takeoff on February 4. The bomber, whose badly charred remains were found some 30 kilometers from Mogadishu, was the only fatality in the attack. AFP PHOTO

DOHA (Al Jazeera): The suspected suicide bomber who blew himself up aboard a Somali airliner on a flight from Mogadishu to Djibouti was meant to board a Turkish Airlines flight, the head of Daallo Airlines told Al Jazeera.

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