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Deadly explosions and gunfire
struck Indonesia's capital Jakarta on Thursday in what authorities have
called a terrorist attack.
JAKARTA—The terror attack that rocked Jakarta and killed at least seven on Thursday unfolded on a busy street in front of the Sarinah shopping complex, an aging mall that was once popular with tourists looking for batik shirts or cheap Indonesian knickknacks.
In the late morning, a man exploded a bomb at a Starbucks cafe across from the mall as a crowd sipped coffee. The explosive device killed the bomber and caused panic among the patrons. Two gunmen outside the Starbucks opened fire, and a Canadian man was struck and killed, police said. His identity was not disclosed.
Shortly after, two more suicide bombers exploded devices at a small police traffic post at the nearby intersection of busy Thamrin and Wahid Hasyim streets, police said. The concrete huts, where officers park their motorcycles and take a break, are spread around the capital. The bombers killed themselves and at least one officer was injured, police said.
The blasts were heard throughout the area. Crowds of people milled in front of nearby office buildings, trying to understand what was happening. Others fled down the street. Many reflexively looked at their phones. More explosions went off at security gates near the Starbucks and at a nearby Burger King.
“I heard the first explosion at around 10:30. A few minutes later, I heard a second explosion and saw [a policeman] in the police post, his clothes are ripped apart,” Mega Silviyanti, a student, said. “I heard a total of six explosions.”
The attack began when a bomb exploded at a Starbucks in Jakarta.
Photo:
adi weda/European Pressphoto Agency
Hundreds of shoppers and office workers sought cover on Sunda, a cross street about 50 meters from the Sarinah shopping complex, or down the restaurant-lined Sabang street. Police cordoned the area as helicopters hovered overhead.
People called and texted loved ones and shot photos and videos.
Jakartans turned to Twitter to draw comfort and show defiance. Hashtags #prayforJakarta and #KamiTidakTakut, or “We’re Not Afraid,” became world-wide trending topics on the social network.
Security forces swept the area and turned up six more explosive devices, most of them the size of a fist, police said. A tremor went through the crowd thronging Sunda street at about 12:40 p.m. when another explosion was heard, which turned out to be a device being disarmed.
Antiterror police with bulletproof vests and assault rifles later swept the Lotus department store near the Starbucks, seeking more attackers but didn’t find any, police said. Apart from the milling crowds, the normally packed central city was eerily devoid of cars as police rerouted traffic. They announced the all-clear around 4:30 p.m. Nerves stayed on edge, however, and an exploding car tire caused momentary panic in the area hours later.
Officials said the militants came from an Islamic State-linked group in Solo, a city on Indonesia’s main island of Java, and had been in contact with terrorists in Syria. Islamic State said it carried out the attacks in an Arabic-language statement distributed on social media.
The attack was the worst in the capital of the world’s most-populous Muslim majority country in many years and left all five attackers dead, plus the Canadian and an Indonesian national. A Dutch citizen and a German man were among the 20 people injured, some of them critically.
