16 months later, police make arrests over suspicious death
The Maldives police have arrested five people over the death of a young man some 16 months ago. At the time, the police had labelled Mohamed Nadhaal’s death an accident.
09 May 2016, 9:00 AM
The Maldives police have arrested five people over the death of a young man some 16 months ago. At the time, the police had labelled Mohamed Nadhaal’s death an accident.
Nadhaal, 25 years, had reportedly fallen from the sixth floor of a building in Malé in December 2014. Police had said then they found no evidence to suggest he was thrown off the balcony, and said he had tested positive for cannabis.
The arrest of four young men, aged 21, 22, 24 and 15 years, and a woman aged 24 years on Saturday and Sunday were based on new evidence, a police spokesman suggested.
“The arrests were made based on information about Nadhal’s death, that were sufficient enough as evidence to make these arrests,” he said.
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