Police investigating this weekend’s nail-bomb attack in the Maldives, which injured a dozen foreign tourists, have now arrested 10 people, officials said on Monday. ”Some of them were trying to flee the country and were apprehended at the airport,” said Mohamed Shareef, a Maldives government spokesman.
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/ 29 September 2007
A homemade bomb exploded near a mosque in the Maldives’ capital, Male, on Saturday, wounding 12 foreign tourists, the islands’ government said. The blast occurred at the entrance to the capital’s Sultan Park, a popular stop-off for tour groups.