Bomb suspects flee Maldives for Pak, say police

Colombo: Ten men whom police suspect of involvement in a bombing that wounded 12 foreign tourists in the Maldives fled to Pakistan before officers could arrest them, police said on Thursday. Officers managed to round up six of 16 local men suspected of involvement in the planning of the attack and assembling of the bomb, but the other 10 escaped to Pakistan, Maldives police said.