BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) - A lawyer for Malawi's former president says the leader was arrested as he returned from a foreign trip.
The lawyer, Fahad Assani, says he does not know what charges former President Bakili Muluzi faces after Sunday's arrest. But close aides to Muluzi had been arrested earlier on charges they were plotting to overthrow the current president, with whom Muluzi has clashed.
Word of the arrest angered thousands of people who had gathered at the airport in the capital, Lilongwe, to greet Muluzi on his return from a trip to Europe. There were clashes with police, and Brown Mpinganjira, a close ally of Muluzi, told The Associated Press three people were shot by police and several were beaten.
Sunday, 25 May 2008
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