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The Maldives’ first president Mohamed Nasheed has been injured in an explosion outside his home and taken to hospital in Male.
The 53-year-old, who is the current parliament speaker and from 2008 to 2012 was the country’s first democratically elected president, was being treated for non-life threatening injuries, Home Minister Imran Abdulla told a local media outlet.
President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih called the blast an attack on the country’s democracy and economy.
Mohamed Nasheed has championed global efforts to fight climate change, particularly warning that rising seas caused by global warming threaten the low-lying islands of the Indian Ocean (Manish Swarup/AP)