Islamic State claims responsibility for Jakarta suicide bombings

Police secure the area following an explosion at a bus stop in Kampung Melayu, East Jakarta, Indonesia May 24, 2017 in this photo taken by Antara Foto.  Antara Foto/Sigid Kurniawan/ via REUTERS
Police secure the area following an explosion at a bus stop in Kampung Melayu, East Jakarta, Indonesia May 24, 2017 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Sigid Kurniawan/ via REUTERS

Islamic state claimed responsibility for the Jakarta bus station attacks that left at least three policemen dead and 12 others wounded on Wednesday.

“The executor of the attack on the Indonesian police gathering in Jakarta was an Islamic State fighter,” the group’s news agency Amaq said.

The attack was the deadliest in Indonesia since January 2016, when eight people were killed, four of them attackers, after suicide bombers and gunmen attacked the capital.

(Reporting by Ali Abdelatti; Writing by Amina Ismail; Editing by Chris Reese)


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