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Maldives Bomb Wounds 12 TouristsFiled at 12:32 p.m. ET COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) A homemade bomb exploded Saturday outside a crowded city park in the Maldives, wounding at least 12 people, all of them foreign tourists, a government official said. Officials in the Indian Ocean archipelago, renowned for its exclusive tourist resorts, said they did not know who was behind the afternoon attack that hit the crowded Sultan Park in the capital, Male. The Maldives has never had something like this before. We are taking this very seriously because tourism is our life blood, government spokesman Mohamed Shareef said. The injured included two Britons, eight Chinese and two Japanese, all with burns, Shareef said: They are still in a state of shock, and police have still not interviewed them. He said it was too early to say whether the bomb targeted the tourism industry or determing whether an Islamic Jihadist organization was involved. Some Western diplomats have expressed concern about the potential for violence in this Sunni Muslim country. Half the population is under 18, reasonably well-educated and with few prospects for good jobs. Some young people have turned to drug use, while others have embraced a conservative strain of Islam that had been virtually unheard of on the islands just a few years ago. Attacks against the tourist trade are virtually unheard of, though there has been tension and occasional outbreaks of violence in recent years between opposition activists and government forces, who are controlled by President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who has ruled the country for 29 years. The opposition Minivan News reported on its Web site that witnesses said they saw nails, presumably from the bomb, scattered in the park, which is located near the countrys army headquarters. The Maldives, with a population of about 350,000, is by far the wealthiest and most orderly country in south Asia. About 600,000 tourists visit the country each year, accounting for one-third of its economy. Authorities will seek help from Interpol, the United States and India in investigating the blast, Shareef said. Tag CloudExternal InformationAdditional InformationViolence Continues in Gaza...U.S. Forces Fire Missiles Into Somalia at a Kenyan... China Media Less Aggressive in Foreign Coverage... Turkish Jets Bomb Northern Iraq... Where Am I?News Main Page - Business - Maldives Bomb Wounds 12 Tourists |
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