Police secure a site after a suspected bomb blast injured former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed. Photo: AFP Police secure a site after a suspected bomb blast injured former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed. Photo: AFP
Police secure a site after a suspected bomb blast injured former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed. Photo: AFP
Maldives
Asia /  South Asia

‘I’m good’, says ex-Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed after surviving assassination attempt

  • The 53-year-old is conscious after life-saving surgery, his family says
  • Police arrested two men linked to Islamic extremism in connection with the bomb blast that left Nasheed critically injured

Topic |   Maldives
Reuters
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Updated: 10:00pm, 8 May, 2021

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Police secure a site after a suspected bomb blast injured former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed. Photo: AFP Police secure a site after a suspected bomb blast injured former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed. Photo: AFP
Police secure a site after a suspected bomb blast injured former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed. Photo: AFP
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