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Lockerbie case review

Police are following several lines of inquiry into the Lockerbie bombing focusing on possible accomplices of convicted former Libyan agent Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, Scottish authorities said yesterday.

The review was part of a regular series carried out into the bombing of PanAm flight 103 over the Scottish town in December 1988, Scotland's chief prosecutor said in an e-mail sent to relatives of British victims. The attack killed 270. The authorities were not re-opening the case into Megrahi - released last month on compassionate grounds - but would focus on who might have worked with him, the Scottish Crown Office, the country's prosecuting authority, said.

(China Daily 10/26/2009 page8)