Three of four suspects in explosion targeting Mohamed Nasheed in custody as he recovers in hospital

Maldives police have arrested a person believed to be the prime suspect in an explosion that critically wounded the country’s former president and was blamed on Islamic extremists.

Police said on Sunday they had in their custody three of the four suspects in Thursday’s blast targeting the former president Mohamed Nasheed, who is recovering in hospital after multiple operations.

Police make two arrests in connection with explosion at Mohamed Nasheed’s family home in Malé

The former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed is conscious after life-saving surgery, his family said on Saturday, as police made two arrests in connection with an explosion they said was being treated as a terror attack.

Nasheed, the president of the ruling Maldivian Democratic party and the current parliament speaker, was critically injured after a bomb exploded as he left his family home in the capital Malé on Thursday.

Police treating attack in capital Male that wounded four others including British national as act of terrorism

The former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed has been left in a critical condition following an assassination attempt that also wounded four others, including a British national.

Police said they were treating the bomb blast, which occurred at about 8.30pm local time on Thursday evening, as an act of terrorism.