A home-made bomb exploded today outside a crowded city park in the Maldives, wounding at least 12 tourists a government official said tonight.

A bomb exploded at the entrance to a recreation park in the Maldives, wounding at least 12 foreign tourists today, a government official said.

Thousands of people in the Maldives are voting today in a referendum being hailed as the tiny Indian Ocean nation’s first real expression of democracy.