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Libya minister ready to co-operate in Lockerbie probe

LIBYA'S interim justice minister has said he will work with Scottish prosecutors and police to investigate the possible involvement of others in the Lockerbie bombing.

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi is the only person convicted of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie and killed 270 people in December 1988.

But the Crown Office has said the trial court, which convened in Camp Zeist, accepted that Megrahi “acted in furtherance” of the Libyan intelligence services and did not act alone. It has asked Libya’s National Transitional Council to give them access to papers or witnesses that could implicate more suspects.