Twelve foreign tourists-- eight Chinese, two Japanese and two British--were injured in an explosion on September 29,2007, in a park near the mainmosque in the Maldives capital of Male. It is not yet known whether the Chinesewere from mainland China or elsewhere. Nor is it known whether the explosionspecifically targeted the foreign tourists or whether the tourists just happenedto be near the scene when the explosion took place. The local police, however,seem to suspect that the blast was meant to target foreign tourists and affectthe flow of tourists to the country. So far, no one has claimed responsibilityfor the blast.