location: Mogadishu
notes: A suicide-style bomb is detonated on a passenger Airbus 321 shortly after takeoff (at 11,000 feet) from Mogadishu. One death reported (the bomber), and the aircraft landed safely. The bomber may have been ridden a wheel-chair as an effort to conceal the explosive. In the week that followed al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack, stating the target of the attack was senior western officials. A passenger believed to be the bomber was killed, probably after being propelled out of the aircraft in the explosion, investigators said. Several other injuries reported. Twenty arrests were later arrested in connection with the attack.
target_text: location: Mogadishu, fatalities: 1