Al-Shabaab leading suspect in plane blast

Investigators suspect the al-Shabaab militant group was behind a likely bomb blast that forced an Airbus A321 into an emergency landing this week in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, US government sources said on Wednesday.

One US government source said investigators believe the Islamic militant group al-Shabaab perpetrated the attack. However, officials said that there had been no claim of responsibility for the attack.

One man was killed by the blast on Tuesday on the Daallo Airlines plane, officials said. Local authorities north of Mogadishu said the body of a man, believed to have been sucked out through the hole in the fuselage made by the blast, was found in their area.