WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. and Scottish officials say the Libyan man suspected of making the bomb that destroyed a passenger plane over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, is in U.S. custody.
Scotland’s Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said in a statement that the families of those who died had been told the news.
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Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie on Dec. 21, 1988, leaving 270 people dead. It remains the deadliest terror attack on British soil.
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In 2001, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of bombing the flight.
He is the only person so far convicted over the attack.
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