Two suspected suicide bombers killed three Indonesian police officers and injured 10 people on Wednesday night in twin blasts near a bus station in the eastern part of the capital, police said.
The blasts went off five minutes apart at Jakarta’s Kampung Melayu terminal, police said.
National Police spokesman Setyo Wasisto said three officers had been killed, and that examination of the scene had shown that there appeared to have been two suicide bombers, not one as originally thought.
Five officers and five civilians were wounded, he said.
Indonesia has suffered a series of mostly low-level attacks by Islamic State sympathizers in the last 17 months, but Wasisto said police had not confirmed any Islamist motive for Wednesday’s bombing.
“The police officers were on duty to guard a group of people who were holding a parade. The parade hadn’t passed yet when the blast happened,” Wasisto told a news conference.
“The two suspects were both male. Their identities will be released later,” he said.
Authorities in the world’s biggest Muslim-majority nation are increasingly worried about a surge in radicalism, driven in part by a new generation of militants inspired by Islamic State.
In January 2016, four militants killed four people in a gun and bomb assault in the heart of Jakarta.
“Militants.”
Call them what they are – Authentic Islam, adhering to the teachings in the Koran.
Muslims and pit bulls.
Never know when they’ll snap. Too dangerous to allow.
Duterte may be leading the way here.
Maybe we should build a wall around the Arabian Peninsula, and toss all the muslims of the world inside?
Terrorism would drop by, what, 99%? Well, it would drop outside the containment zone, anyway – inside the zone, probably not so much.
They we could get back to doing useful stuff, and they can happily rape and murder each other.
They must have found the second ones head on the roof. They do pop like a cork when they pop. โ๏ธ ๐ค ๐คฃ
Duterte isn’t taking shit, he’s taking it to them.
It shall be interesting.