One dead after suspected suicide bombing in Indonesia | Inquirer News

One dead after suspected suicide bombing in Indonesia

/ 12:13 PM November 13, 2019

INDONESIA suicide bomber

Indonesian police secure their headquarters in Medan, North Sumatra, on November 13, 2019, after a suspected suicide attack occurred during their morning roll call. An explosion outside a police station in Indonesia may have been a suicide bombing, authorities and media reports said. AFP

Medan, Indonesia — A suspected suicide bombing outside a police station in Indonesia has left at least one attacker dead, authorities said Wednesday.

The explosion happened around 8:45 a.m. local time (0145 GMT) at a police compound in Medan on Sumatra island.

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“We suspect this is a suicide bombing with one attacker killed,” national police spokesman Dedi Prasetyo told reporters in Jakarta.

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An AFP reporter at the scene saw a body lying on the ground outside the station.

A police source who did not want to be named told AFP that the attack was perpetrated by at least two suicide bombers, but that was not officially confirmed.

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Unconfirmed local media reports said at least one police officer had been rushed to hospital after the bombing but that their condition was not immediately known.

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Police stations have been frequent targets for radicals in the world’s biggest Muslim majority nation, which has long struggled with Islamist militancy.

In August, Indonesian authorities shot and arrested a suspected militant who attacked police officers at a station in the country’s second-biggest city Surabaya. /kga

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