Al Amin Khalifah Fhimah, cleared after Lockerbie bombing trial, dies aged 70

Al Amin Khalifah Fhimah, who was acquitted following the Lockerbie bombing trial, has died at the age of 70. The news of his death was announced via social media.

Fhimah was a Libyan national who was tried alongside Abdelbaset al-Megrahi for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people. While al-Megrahi was convicted, Fhimah was found not guilty and acquitted in 2001.

The Lockerbie bombing remains one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in aviation history. Fhimah's death marks the passing of a key figure connected to one of the 20th century's most significant international criminal trials.