Lockerbie bombing: will two new suspects face prosecution?

Scottish police and FBI want to interview suspects Masud and Senussi in Tripoli, 27 years after attack

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Prosecutors in Scotland are seeking to interview two Libyan men they suspect were involved in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, which left 270 people dead.

The two new suspects – understood to be Mohammed Abouajela Masud and Abdullah al-Senussi – are believed to have acted alongside Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person every convicted of the attack.

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