INDONESIA: PRESIDENT ABDURRAHMAN WAHID COMMENTS ON CAR BOMB EXPLOSION OUTSIDE RESIDENCE OF PHILIPPINES ENVOY

Record ID: 358823

  • Title: INDONESIA: PRESIDENT ABDURRAHMAN WAHID COMMENTS ON CAR BOMB EXPLOSION OUTSIDE RESIDENCE OF PHILIPPINES ENVOY
  • Date: 2nd August 2000
  • Summary: YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA (AUGUST 1, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. SLV EXTERIOR YOGYAKARTA PALACE 0.05 2. MV PALACE GUARDS WALKING AND CARRYING RIOT SHIELDS, BAGS AND WEAPONS (2 SHOTS) 0.14 3. SCU MEDIA 0.19 4. MV SULTAN HAMENGKU BUWONO X AND WIFE LEAVING 0.27 5. SCU PALACE GUARDS 0.32 6. MV PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER AKBAR TANDJUNG ARR
  • Embargoed: 17th August 2000 13:00
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  • Location: YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Reuters ID: LVACCWQHJG5XOO6D1O90T1IZT357
  • Story Text: Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid has said he
    believes Tuesday's bomb explosion outside the Jakarta
    residence of the Manila envoy to Indonesia was linked to
    violence in the southern Philippines.

    The midday blast killed one woman, wounded Manila's
    Ambassador, Leonides Caday, and hurt dozens more people.

    " We heard that the Philippines' Ambassador has been taken
    to the hospital and we hope he gets well soon. And we deeply
    regret the bombing incident," Wahid said, after attending a
    political meeting in Yogyakarta.

    Wahid said he would telephone Philippine President
    Joseph Estrada to express his sympathies. He added he had
    ordered the police to probe the blast.

    Philippine rebels recently declared a jihad, or holy
    war, against Estrada's government after Manila troops captured
    the rebel's biggest base on the southern island of Mindanao.
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