August 09, 2013 | Shangahi Daily
MOGADISHU, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Somali government on Friday appointed a high level committee to investigate a deadly crash of an Ethiopian Air Force plane at the Mogadishu airport.
Four crew members died and two others were injured after the plane crash-landed at the international airport in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
"The Somali government has appointed a high level committee to investigate the cause and the damage of the accident and produce a full report," Somali government spokesman Ridwan haji Abdiwali said in a statement.
The spokesman said preliminary information on the incident indicates that there was "no outside interference," ruling out any possibility of militant attacks against the plane.
The seven-member committee will be headed by the deputy minister of information, Abdishakur Ali Mire, and include a representative from the African Union peacekeeping Mission (AMISOM) and another from a private company that manages the Mogadishu airport.
The spokesman said the committee will immediately start the work and "we expect to get accurate reports on the accident very soon."
The Al-Qaida linked Al-Shabaab movement in Somalia has not claimed any involvement in the crash, although saying it was "victory from Allah."
The radical group often carries out suicide car bomb and road bomb attacks against the Somali government and AMISOM targets in the war-torn Horn of Africa country.
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