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Suspected suicide bomber dies in attack on police in Indonesia's Medan
Television broadcast images showed smoke and a shower of fragments coming from the parking lot area and people rushing out of buildings around the headquarters after the blast.
By REUTERS
November 13, 2019 08:33
A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up outside police headquarters in Indonesia's city of Medan on Wednesday, wounding six people, police said, just a month after an Islamist militant attacked a former security minister.
The motive for Wednesday's attack was not immediately clear, but Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, has suffered a resurgence in homegrown militancy in recent years, with some attacks targeting police.
National police spokesman Dedi Prasetyo said the perpetrator had died and four officers and two civilians, one of whom was a police employee, had been wounded by the blast in a car park at Medan police headquarters at 8:40 a.m.(0140 GMT).
Read more at: https://www.jpost.com/International/Suspected-suicide-bomber-dies-in-attack-on-police-in-Indonesias-Medan-607711 (https://www.jpost.com/International/Suspected-suicide-bomber-dies-in-attack-on-police-in-Indonesias-Medan-607711)