At least 9 killed in 3 church explosions in Indonesia

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Jakarta: Suicide bombers struck three churches in Indonesia's Surabaya city killing at least nine people, police said on Sunday.

The first explosion was at a Catholic church at about 7.30am on Sunday morning.

It's understood that one suicide bomber and one church goer were killed in the first explosion. At least one woman was killed in the second explosion. There have now been 40 people injured and admitted to hospital.

All other masses in Surabaya scheduled for Sunday have been cancelled and Indonesian police are now searching other churches and working to head off any further attack.

Approximately 30 minutes later, a second blast occurred at a Protestant church on Diponegoro street and the third blast occurred soon afterwards at a Pentecostal church in the city.

"The victims are being identified," said Frans Barung Mangera, East Java police spokesman.

The police spokesman said no information was available yet on the third explosion as they were still carrying out their investigation on site.

"We are now holding investigation of the crime scenes. There is no explosions at other locations and we have deployed security to churches in Surabaya."

Surabaya is Indonesia's second-largest city.

No infomation about the perpetrators or the victims has been released yet.

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Suspected suicide bombers struck three different churches in Indonesia on Sunday morning, killing at least nine people and injuring scores more, police say.

Forty people -- including two police officers -- were taken to hospital with injuries following the attacks in Surabaya, a port city on the east coast of Java Island, East Java Police spokesman Frans Barung Mangera said.

Police officers near the scene of hte blast at Santa Maria church in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia.
Police officers near the scene of hte blast at Santa Maria church in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia.
The explosions targeted the Santa Maria Catholic Church, the Indonesian Christian Church and the Pentecost Central Church. The St. Maria explosion killed four people and two people were killed at each of the other two churches, the spokesman said. Another person later died at a hospital.

St. Maria was the site of the first blast, which occurred at 7.30 a.m. local time Sunday (8.30 p.m. Saturday ET), before blasts at 7.35 a.m. and 8 a.m., state-run news agency Antara quoted him as saying.

"Right now there are only three locations. Do not believe in misleading information that (the bomb) exploded in five locations or any others," the police spokesman added.

"We suspect it is a suicide bomb attempt. We have identified one victim," he said.

The police spokesman declined to give more details on the victims.

Police have closed off all three locations as they work to identify the victims.

Indonesia's Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi tweeted her condolences to the bombing victims with the hashtags #UnitedAgainstTerrorism and #WeAreNotAfraid.

Police have not identified the attackers.

The US Embassy in Jakarta issued a statement condemning the Surabaya attacks.

"These attacks on peaceful worshipers are an affront to the tolerance and diversity embraced by Indonesians. The United States stands with the people of Indonesia, and we offer our deepest condolences to the families of the victims," the statement read.

Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim country. In recent years it has been fighting against radical extremism as ISIS attempts to recruit members within the country.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/12/asia/indonesia-bombings/index.html