MEDAN: A suspected suicide bombing outside police headquarters in Indonesia's city of Medan in North Sumatra killed the perpetrator and wounded some officers on Wednesday, police said, just a month after an attack on a former security minister.
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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.
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The
suspected suicide bomber had died in the attack, a spokesman for the North
Sumatra police, Tatan Dirsan Atmaja, said by telephone, adding that some police
officers were wounded in the blast at 8.40am (0140 GMT).
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Television
broadcast images of people rushing out of buildings around the headquarters.
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National
police spokesman Dedi Prasetyo said the blast happened in a car park near an
area where people were queuing for clearance letters from police.
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"We're
on alert right now," Prasetyo told Kompas TV. "The explosion didn't
reach the centre for the clearance letter service, it was just in a parking
lot."
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In
recent years, Islamic radicals, some tied to the Islamic State-inspired
militant group Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), have targeted police in a series
of attacks.
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The
latest attack comes a month after a suspected Islamist stabbed and wounded
Wiranto, Indonesia's former security minister, who uses one name. - REUTERS
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Full article: New Straits Times – 13 November 2019
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