Maldives Explosion

Update.

We have received details of the explosion and we are pleased to announce that no Pure Vacations travellers have been involved with the explosion. At this time everything is proceeding as normal in resort but if we need to contact any future travellers over this situation we will do so in the next 72 hours.

Two Britons are believed to have been injured in a bomb blast in the Maldives that has wounded at least 12 tourists, the Foreign Office said today. The blast happened outside the main mosque in Male, the capital of the republic of islands in the Indian Ocean.

It is thought the two British tourists were staying on Baros, just one of 87 designated tourist islands in the ocean chain. The population of the state is Islamic, but the threat of terrorism is classed as low in the Foreign Office advice to tourists.