Suicide Bombers Kill At Least 9, Wound Dozens At Churches In Indonesia

[TomSea]

Suicide Bombers Kill At Least 9, Wound Dozens At Churches In Indonesia
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Suicide bombers killed at least nine people and wounded dozens in attacks on three different churches holding services in Indonesia's second-largest city of Surabaya Sunday morning.

Police said at least five suicide bombers were involved, including at least one on a motorcycle and a woman who had two children with her, according to The Associated Press.

Police spokesman Frans Barung Mangera said four people were killed at the first attack on the Santa Maria Roman Catholic Church. He said 41 people were wounded at that location, including two police officers, while one or more of the bombers were killed.

Read more at: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/13/610758089/suicide-bombers-kill-at-least-9-wound-dozens-at-churches-in-indonesia

[mountaineer]

Family, With Children in Tow, Carry Out Suicide Bombings at 3 Churches in Indonesia
By Muktita Suhartono
May 13, 2018

BANDUNG, Indonesia — At least 11 people were killed on Sunday morning after suicide bombers detonated explosions at three churches in Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city, as worshipers gathered between services, the police said.

More than 41 other people were wounded by the attackers, at least one of whom was disguised as a churchgoer, said Frans Barung Mangera, a police spokesman. ...

Indonesia’s police chief, Tito Karnavian, said at a news conference that the bombings had been the work of one family, who set off three different kinds of bombs. ...  He identified the man only as Dita and the woman as Puji Kuswanti, and said two sons, Yusuf, 18, and Alif, 16, were also involved. Two younger children were also seen in the company of the woman at one bombing site, the police said.

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the bombings  ...

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[TomSea]

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Per the gist of Mountaineer's post, a family made this a project to suicide bomb different churches, if this doesn't speak to the warped nature of Islam or at least, the warped nature it can take, I don't know what does. Un-bee-liev-a-ble.

[mountaineer]

Per the gist of Mountaineer's post, a family made this a project to suicide bomb different churches, if this doesn't speak to the warped nature of Islam or at least, the warped nature it can take, I don't know what does. Un-bee-liev-a-ble.

Exactly. The family that blows up together ... well, perhaps they'll stay together but only in hell for eternity.

[TomSea]

This is a different family; but nonetheless, reported as a family that suicide-bombed the police station in Indonesia. On motorcycles. Per this story, none of the police were killed.

Family of suicide bombers hits police headquarters in Indonesia

May 14 (UPI) -- A family of five riding motorbikes carried out a suicide attack on a police headquarters in Indonesia Monday, one day after another family attacked a church.

Police said four bombers on two motorbikes drove into the main gateway of the police building in Surabaya. All four attackers died, but an 8-year-old girl on one of the motorbikes survived.

Ten people were injured in Monday's attack in Indonesia's second-largest city; four were police officers.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2018/05/14/Family-of-suicide-bombers-hits-police-headquarters-in-Indonesia/1451526293857/