The two new suspects that are thought to have assisted in the Lockerbie bombing have been identified as Abdullah al-Senussi and Mohammaed Abu Ejaila, a spokesman for the government in Tripoli revealed Friday.
Senussi was the brother-in-law and intelligence chief of former Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, reported Reuters. Senussi is currently being held in a Tripoli jail and is awaiting his execution after he was sentenced for his role in the deaths of protesters during the 2011 uprising against Gaddafi.
Not too many details about Ejaila are known, but it is reported he is serving a prison sentence in Libya for bomb making, according to the BBC.
These two have been named alongside the only man convicted of the bombing that killed a total of 270 people on board the Pan Am 103 flight from London to New York on Dec. 21 1988, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.
Jamal Zubia, the director of the Tripoli government media office, sent a message to journalists confirming the names of the two suspects but said the Libyan attorney general's office had yet to be officially informed about the two suspects, according to Swissinfo.
Scottish and U.S. authorities have informed Libya of recent developments and have requested to send investigators to Libya, which is currently embroiled in a civil war four years after the revolt that ousted Gaddafi took place.
