INDONESIA: An explosion at an Indonesian church complex kills a suspected suicide bomber and at least one other person

Record ID: 359212

  • Title: INDONESIA: An explosion at an Indonesian church complex kills a suspected suicide bomber and at least one other person
  • Date: 26th September 2011
  • Summary: JAKARTA, INDONESIA (SEPTEMBER 25, 2011) (REUTERS) ( ** BEWARE FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY **) EXTERIOR OF COORDINATING MINISTRY FOR POLITICAL, LEGAL AND SECURITY AFFAIRS BUILDING SIGN OF COORDINATING MINISTRY FOR POLITICAL, LEGAL AND SECURITY AFFAIRS CAMERAMEN GETTING READY FOR NEWS CONFERENCE INDONESIA COORDINATING MINISTER FOR POLITICAL, LEGAL AND SECURITY AFFAIRS , DJOKO SUY
  • Embargoed: 11th October 2011 13:00
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  • Location: Indonesia, Indonesia
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Topics: Crime,Conflict,Domestic Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVAEEKN1102PXRAA5S8LAMNBZREN
  • Story Text: A suspected suicide bomber attacked a church on Indonesia's Java island on Sunday (September 25), killing himself and one other person, a police officer and a government minister said.
    Seventeen people were wounded in the explosion outside a Protestant church just after Sunday service in the city of Solo, police said.
    Police have said it was highly likely that the attack was a suicide attack, but investigations were still underway.
    "It happened this morning at 10.50 a.m. (0350GMT) local time in Solo. The blast was at the GBIS church Kepunton. The investigation has not been completed yet so we cannot assume that it was a suicide bombing," said the co-ordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs, Djoko Suyanto.
    He added that the closed circuit footage would be examined to identify the person who is seen on it.
    "We can see one person was killed on the church's CCTV. The other one died in hospital. Some of the wounded were treated in two hospitals in Solo and some of them been allowed to return home," he said.
    Solo is the home town of radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, considered the spiritual leader behind the group that killed more than 200 people in Bali in 2002.
    Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, has been the scene of some major attacks by militants and radical groups over the past decade, but there have been few attacks recently.
    Religious tensions still bubble near the surface in the officially secular nation. Religious conflicts flared up between Muslims and Christians in Maluku and Sulawesi, in the eastern part of the sprawling archipelago, following the overthrow of former President Suharto in 1998.
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