Explosion outside Australian Embassy in Jakarta
JAKARTA (JP): A powerful explosion caused extensive damage to the Australian Embassy building and other high rise buildings nearby in the busy Kuningan district area in South Jakarta.
Details of casualties were still sketchy. Anteve reported that three bodies had been taken to the MMC Hospital near the site of the location.
Witnesses said two bodies were lying on the street, covered with plastics, as police and rescue workers cleared the area.
No embassy workers were injured in the blast, said Lyndall Sachs, a spokeswoman for the Australian foreign ministry in Canberra. She said that windows of the building were shattered and that power was down.
The mission was evacuated in line with standard procedures, Sachs said as reported by Associated Press.
But Anteve reported that one of the victims was a security guard of the Embassy.
In recent weeks several Western embassies, including those of the United States and Australia, have warned their citizens about possible attacks by militants. Last year, 12 people died in a suicide attack on the JW Marriott hotel in the same district. In 2002, more than two hundred people died in an attack on two nightclubs on the tourist island of Bali.
Details of casualties were still sketchy. Anteve reported that three bodies had been taken to the MMC Hospital near the site of the location.
Witnesses said two bodies were lying on the street, covered with plastics, as police and rescue workers cleared the area.
No embassy workers were injured in the blast, said Lyndall Sachs, a spokeswoman for the Australian foreign ministry in Canberra. She said that windows of the building were shattered and that power was down.
The mission was evacuated in line with standard procedures, Sachs said as reported by Associated Press.
But Anteve reported that one of the victims was a security guard of the Embassy.
In recent weeks several Western embassies, including those of the United States and Australia, have warned their citizens about possible attacks by militants. Last year, 12 people died in a suicide attack on the JW Marriott hotel in the same district. In 2002, more than two hundred people died in an attack on two nightclubs on the tourist island of Bali.
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