FILE PHOTO: Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih and former president Mohamed Nasheed arrive at an election campaign rally ahead of their parliamentary election on Saturday, in Male, Maldives April 4, 2019 ReutersParty official says the suspected bomb blast took place when the 53-year-old was getting into his carFormer Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed was injured in a blast outside his family home on Thursday, police said in a statement. "Following an explosion... Speaker of Parliament President Mohamed Nasheed has sustained injuries and is currently receiving treatment at ADK Hospital," Reuters reported quoting the statement. "Strongly condemn the attack on Speaker of Parliament, President Mohamed Nasheed this evening," the country's foreign minister Abdulla Shahid, a member of Nasheed's Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), said in a tweet. My thoughts and prayers are with President Nasheed and others injured in this attack, as well as their families." Nasheed became parliament speaker, the Indian Ocean nation’s second most powerful position, following his party's landslide victory in elections in April 2019.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 06, 2021 17:26 UTC