Maldives Police Service (MPS) has arrested two individuals for claiming to be in possession of an explosive.

Two individuals were arrested near Mulee'aage, after they claimed that they were carrying a bomb inside a suitcase.

Officers of MPS and Maldives National Defense Force (MNDF) are currently active after receiving the reports.

Further information is yet to be shared, however, it has been confirmed that the two individuals have since been taken into police custody.

On June 2, security levels near the presidential residence were strengthened following intel reports of bomb threats. The area near Mulee’aage is always secured by MNDF officers and following the bomb threats, security was boosted.

Security measures were strengthened across the Maldives capital, following a terrorist attack on May 6. Former President and Speaker of Parliament Mohamed Nasheed was targeted with an assassination attempt on May 6, as he was heading out to attend an event in an island. The attack, which saw a remote-controlled IED explode near his residence in the center of Malé City, caused serious injuries to the ex-president who was rushed to the hospital within seven minutes after being knocked to the ground by the blast, which was dubbed far more powerful than the explosion in Sultan Park, 2007.