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Lockerbie 'bombmaker' taken into custody by US authorities

On Wednesday 21 December 1988, a police officer walks past the cockpit of Pan Am Flight 103 in a field near the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, where it lay after a bomb exploded on board, killing a total of 270 people. © AP - Martin Cleaver

A Libyan man accused of making the bomb that destroyed a Pan Am flight over Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people, has been taken into US custody.

Abu Agila Mohammad Masud was charged by the United States two years ago for the Lockerbie bombing – in which Americans made up a majority of the victims.

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