Former Maldives president recovering from shrapnel wounds after bomb attack

Investigation underway after what foreign minister describes as cowardly attack' on Mohamed Nasheed

Mohamed Nasheed, who was the first democratically elected president of the Maldives and current parliamentary speaker, was recovering in hospital on Friday after an assassination attempt left him with shrapnel wounds.

Nasheed was hurt when a device attached to a motorcycle was detonated as he got into a car on Thursday evening, an official said. Nasheed escaped an assassination attempt," a Maldivian government official told Agence France-Presse. He is injured, but his condition is stable."