A major blast on Monday rocked the vicinity of Beledweyn airport, Central Somalia, eyewitnesses said.According to some sources, the explosion occurred after one person with a laptop computer bag was stopped by security officials but detonated the explosives in it immediately. Other witnesses say that it was a car laden with explosives that went off.
There were no immediate details on casualties or damage from the blast, which occurred as the airport was busy.It is also not clear if the bomb was obviously meant to explode on a flight, something that Somali government officials would naturally find embarrassing after the recent Daallo airlines planes incident in Mogadishu.
Beledweyne airport bomb attack comes one month after a bomb blast caused by a laptop computer containing a bomb ripped through on a Somali passenger plane, killing the suspected bomber and injuring two passengers.Al-Shabaab claimed the responsibility of the Daallo plane bombing which caused major panic among Somali government officials.