Former President Maldives, currently the National Assembly Chairman, injured and hospitalized behind what officials described were the assassination in the capital.

Officials said that when former President Mohamed Nasheed, 53, was preparing to enter his car on the street of Male's capital on May 6, a bomb attached to the nearby motorbike exploding.

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"Nasheed has escaped an assassination," said a Maldives government official.

Armed police units and security forces have blocked the area of the attack.

The Maldives National Assembly summoned the emergency meeting after the attack, despite being during a break.

The explosion occurred just before the nightly order was valid in the capital as part of the measures to prevent Covid-19 spread.

A family member said Nasheed suffered some wounds.

People in Male said the capital all heard the explosion in the attack.

Police ensure field security after bombs in Male in the evening of May 6.

Indian Ocean nation with 330,000 Sunni Muslims is famous for luxury resorts, but also faces political unrest.

Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid condemned a strong attack on Nasheed.

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said he "deeply concerned" about the Nasheed attack.

Nasheed is a former prisoner of conscience of an international amnesty, the term is set in the early 1960s referring to anyone who was imprisoned for reasons of race, politics, religion, skin color,

Nasheed became the first elected president of the country in the first multi-party election in 2008. He was overthrown in the coup in 2012 and was sentenced to 13 years in prison in 2015 with a crime

President Abdulla Yameen let him go healing and Nasheed lived in exile in England, but in the country in 2018. Nasheed became the National Assembly Chairman, the country's second power position, after the elections in 2019.

Nasheed opposed the fact that Yameen governments borrowed heavy interest from China, accusing the incumbent president of paradise island to Beijing to implement infrastructure projects.

Former President Mohamed Nasheed (middle, right) accompanying President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih in Male in 2019. Photo: Reuters.