Libyan convicted in Lockerbie bombing dies at 60

FILE - This undated file photo, issued by the British Crown Office, shows Abdel Baset al-Megrahi. A son says Al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 bombing of a PanAm flight over Scotland that killed 270 people, has died in Tripoli, Libya. Al-Megrahi suffered from prostate cancer. His death was announced Sunday, May 20, 2012, by his son Khaled. (AP Photo/Crown Copyright, File)Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died at home in Tripoli Sunday, nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison to the outrage of the relatives of the attack’s 270 victims. He was 60.


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