Two attackers were killed in a shootout with police, while two others were suicide bombers, he said.
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Anton Charliyan, National Police spokesperson, said that police later found three intact homemade bombs, a gun, a knife and duct tape at the scene.
Later, Jakarta police spokesman Col. Muhammad Iqbal said four of the attackers were killed, and their bodies retrieved.
This led to a 15-minute gunfight in which both attackers were killed, he said.
Angele Samura, the security adviser for the Netherlands Embassy in Jakarta, said a Dutch national underwent surgery after being “severely injured”. Police helicopters hovered overhead as anti-terror squad troops rushed in.
1435 – Police said they suspected at least three suicide bombers.
He said at least one attacker – maybe two – fled afterwards, using a motorbike.
“We believe there are no more attackers around Sarinah”.
Multiple explosions and gun attacks hit Jakarta on the afternoon of January 14, with blasts occurring in various locations in the city, including a Starbucks outside the Sarinah mall and a United Nations building.
“The state, nation and people should not be afraid of, and lose to, such terror acts”.
1304 – Indonesia’s intelligence chief said there were no indications yet that the Jakarta attack is related to Islamic State. “Kind of a denial or something”, he said in another tweet, referring to the pandemonium on the street below that took nearly three hours to bring under control.
The attack initially appeared to target a traffic police post at a major intersection, which was heavily damaged by bomb blasts, and at least one police officer was killed by gunfire from an assailant, according to witnesses who spoke to a local television station, TV One.
On Wednesday, it was reported to have deployed 2,000 security personnel to the mountainous forests of Sulawesi island in the latest operation aimed at capturing the country’s most-wanted man who has claimed links to Daesh.
President Widodo was outside Jakarta when the attack unfolded but was cutting short his trip to return to the sprawling capital of more than 10 million people by helicopter. “Didn’t experience this in 3.5 years in #Pakistan”, he wrote.
On Tuesday, jailed radical Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir appealed to an Indonesia court to have his conviction for funding a terror training camp overturned, arguing that his support for the camp was an act of worship.
Indonesia’s central bank cut its benchmark interest rate on Thursday for the first time in almost a year to help shore up the weak economy, which has decelerated to its slowest pace since 2009.
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