US and Scottish investigators identify two suspects over Lockerbie

Scottish and US investigators have identified two Libyan suspects believed to have been involved in the 1988 Lockerbie airline bombing that killed 270 people, Scottish prosecutors have said.

Pam Am flight 103 was blown up en route from London to New York over the Scottish town of Lockerbie on December 21st, 1988.

In 2001, Libyan Abdel Basset al-Megrahi was jailed for life and remains the only person to have been convicted over the bombing.

A Scottish Crown Office spokesman said the two unnamed Libyans were now suspected of being involved with Megrahi in carrying out the attack.

““The lord advocate and the US attorney general are seeking the assistance of the Libyan judicial authorities for Scottish police officers and the FBI to interview the two named suspects in Tripoli,” the spokesman said

Megrahi died in Libya in 2012, three years after he was released on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. His family and some relatives of the Scottish victims believe he was wrongly convicted. – (Reuters)