A family of five, including an eight-year-old child, has carried out a bomb attack on a police headquarters in Surabaya, killing at four people and injuring 10, an Indonesian police official has said
The suicide bombing comes just one day after 13 people were killed in the city during coordinated suicide bombings targeting three churches.
The blast occurred at 8.50am, said East Java police spokesman Frans Barung Mangera. Police confirmed the attack was carried out by a family of five, including an eight-year-old, who drove up to the gates of the police station on two motorcycles and then detonated the explosives at the security checkpoint. The four adult perpetrators died but the young child is now recovering in hospital.
Four policemen and six civilians were also injured when they were caught up in the blast. The full death toll has not been announced but initial reports said at least seven had been killed in the attack.
“Clearly it’s a suicide bombing,” Mangera told a briefing. “We can’t open up all details yet because we are still identifying victims at the scene and the crime scene is being handled.”
“This is the act of cowards, undignified and barbaric,” President Joko Widodo said on Monday, addressing both the three-pronged attack on Sunday and those on the police station on Monday morning. He said he would make sure that a new anti-terrorism law was pass through parliament by next month to combat the networks of Islamic militants in Indonesia.
Monday’s blast comes after a bomb explosion in an apartment building in East Java killed three people on Sunday evening, just kilometres away and hours after Sunday’s Surabaya attack. Residents reported hearing multiple blasts from the fifth floor of the Wonocolo apartment building in Sidoarjo, at about 9pm on Sunday.
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