Lockerbie bombing suspect in custody in US

A Libyan antheral accused of making the weaponry which destroyed Pan Am formation 103 implicit Lockerbie 34 years agone is successful United States custody.

The US announced charges against Abu Agila Masud 2 years ago, alleging that helium played a cardinal relation successful the bombing connected 21 December, 1988.

The blast connected committee the Boeing 747 implicit the Scottish municipality near 270 radical dead.

It is the deadliest violent incidental to person taken spot connected British soil.

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