Former Maldives president is off life support after bomb attack

Police make two arrests in connection with explosion at Mohamed Nasheed's family home in Male

The former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed is conscious after life-saving surgery, his family said on Saturday, as police made two arrests in connection with an explosion they said was being treated as a terror attack.

Nasheed, the president of the ruling Maldivian Democratic party and the current parliament speaker, was critically injured after a bomb exploded as he left his family home in the capital Male on Thursday.