Chilling images have emerged of the “terror kit” used in a terror attack which killed two people and five suspected attackers in Jakarta, Indonesia, yesterday.
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Security forces battled militants for hours in the busy commercial district where the militants struck.
Police confirmed that IS was responsible and named an Indonesian militant, Bahrun Naim, as the mastermind.
The black ISIS flag was reportedly found at the home of one of the attackers and the discovery supports claims that the attack was carried out by ISIS, which controls territory in Iraq and Syria and aims to establish an Islamic caliphate around the world.
Police spokesman Anton, citing Indonesia’s Information Ministry, said more than 200 IS-linked militants have returned to the country.
Returning to the area outside Jakarta’s oldest department store Sarinah, where Thursday’s attack unfolded, the city’s police chief said the rise of the Islamic State group was a cause for serious concern.
The newspaper quoted Maj. “We are continuing to pursue the terrorist group that went into the jungle”, said police chief Ronny Suseno.
Qatar condemned blasts that targeted a commercial centre and the fire exchange in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, that left seven people dead and several injured.
“A large screen atop the building containing the Starbucks displayed messages that said “#prayforjakarta” and “Indonesia Unite”.
The scene of the attack, in Jakarta’s downtown business area, has been sealed off with metal fences. Those killed included an Indonesian and a Canadian.
Police declared the attack over after a fierce firefight nearby and later announced there were no more assailants on the loose.
“The Starbucks cafe windows are blown out.
That’s why Bahrun Naim plotted this attack”. The bloodiest attack by Islamic extremists in Indonesia – and in all of Asia – was in 2002, when a nightclub bombing on the resort island of Bali killed 202 people, mostly foreigners.
The Jakarta blasts followed a suicide bombing in Istanbul, Turkey, on Tuesday that killed 10 people, all of whom were Germans, which officials reportedly blamed on the Islamic State.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said in a televised address that “the state, the nation and the people should not be afraid of, or be defeated by, such terror acts”.
When suspected terrorists were arrested in Indonesia before Christmas for allegedly planning attacks in Sumatra, Java and Kalimantan, police got hold of documents which appeared to show that suspects were planning to “do a concert”.
A wave of bomb and gun attacks rocked central Jakarta on Thursday.
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The Indonesian government responded to the incident with deployments of some 150,000 security personnel, and reported an unspecified number of arrests related to the attack.
