12 tourists wounded in first-ever Maldives blast

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Source: MSNBC

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - A bomb exploded at the entrance to a recreation park in the Maldives, wounding at least 12 foreign tourists Saturday, a government official said.

The homemade bomb exploded outside Sultan Park in the capital, Male, leaving 12 people, including two Britons, six Chinese and two Japanese, with burn injuries, government spokesman Mohamed Shareef said.

Shareef did not immediately know the nationalities of the other two wounded.

“The Maldives has never had something like this before. We are taking this very seriously because tourism is our life blood,” he said.

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