Tripoli, Sep 27(ANI): Scotland has asked Libya's interim government to help track down those responsible for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, but Libyan Justice Minister Mohammed al-Alagi says that "the case is closed".
Alagi said that the only person charged in the bombing, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, had been freed from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds in 2009 because of illness.
He insisted that there is no reason to keep dragging the case into court, the Guardian reports.
Earlier, Scottish prosecutors had formally asked the Libyan government to help uncover fresh evidence and witnesses in the case.
The Crown Office said it had approached the National Transitional Council (NTC) for help in its reopened investigation into the atrocity.
"Lockerbie remains an open inquiry concerning the involvement of others with Mr. Megrahi in the murder of 270 people," a Crown Office spokesman had said.
"The Crown will continue to pursue lines of inquiry that become available and, following recent events in Libya, has asked the national transitional council, through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, for assistance with the investigation," the spokesman added. (ANI)
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