Police: Indonesia suicide bombings work of 2 families
SURABAYA, Indonesia — An Indonesian family brought its seven-year-old daughter to a suicide bomb attack it launched Monday, May 14, on the police headquarters in the country’s second-largest were wounded. Experts have warned for family whose homemade comprehend the decisions arrested. city, authorities said, a The attack came just several years that when bombs exploded in their i nvol ved.” Karnavian said the father day after members of another hours after police said the those fighters return, they apartment Sunday night. All told, 25 people have of the family that carried family conducted coordinated family that carried out the could pose a significant The use of children in died since Sunday including out the church bombings suicide bombings church bombings included threat. the attacks has been particularly a total of 13 militants was head of the on three city churches girls aged 8 and 12. IS claimed responsibility horrifying to and their children. Surabaya cell of Jemaah that killed 12 people. The flurry of bombings for the church bombings in people. Indonesian President Anshorut Daulah, an Indonesian
National police chief raised concerns that previously a statement carried by its “This is terrifying,” said Joko “Jokowi” Widodo condemned militant network affiliated Tito Karnavian said the beaten-down militant Aamaq news agency. Taufik Andrie, executive the attacks as “barbaric” with IS that has girl, who was with two of networks in the world’s Karnavian, however, said director of an institute that and vowed that authorities been implicated in attacks the attackers on a motorcycle, most populous Muslimmajority earlier police comments runs programs to help would root out in Indonesia in the past survived being nation have been that the family had spent paroled militants reject extremism and destroy Islamic militant year. All six members of the thrown by the blast at reinvigorated by the return time in Syria were incorrect. and rejoin society. networks. The top security family were killed. Surabaya’s police headquarters. of some of the estimated He said the church bombers “This is showing how minister, Wiranto, The IS statement claiming The attack killed 1,100 Indonesians who and the police headquarters extremist ideology can who uses one name, said responsibility for the the four perpetrators. Six went to fight with the Islamic attackers were entrap children. Children the government will attempt attacks didn’t mention anything civilians and four officers State group in Syria. friends, as were another have no choice. They can’t to hasten passage of about families or an updated anti-terrorism children taking part and law that has languished in said there were only three parliament. attackers. The group also
A security camera video claimed responsibility for a of the attack on Surabaya’s hostage-taking ordeal last police headquarters week by imprisoned Islamic showed at least one explosion militants at a detention after the four attackers center near Jakarta in rode two motorcycles which six officers were up to a security checkpoint. killed.
The motorcycles, which Separately on Sunday, moved closely together, three members of another pulled up alongside a car family were killed when and four officers manning homemade bombs exploded opposite sides of the checkpoint. at an apartment in Sidoarjo, a town bordering
Two men, apparently Surabaya, police said. civilians, were walking The church attacks occurred into the area just meters within minutes of (yards) from the motorcycles each other, according to at the moment of the Surabaya police spokesman explosion, which a split Frans Barung second later was followed Manger a. by a second possible blast. Karnavian said the father
Indonesia’s deadliest drove a bomb-laden terrorist attack occurred in car into the city’s Pentecostal 2002, when bombs exploded church. The mother, on the tourist island with her two daughters, of Bali, killing 202 people attacked the Christian in one night, mostly foreigners. Church of Diponegoro, he Jemaah Islamiyah, said. Based on their remains, the al-Qaida affiliated network Karnavian said the responsible for the mother and daughters were Bali attacks, was obliterated all wearing explosives by a sustained crackdown around their waists. on militants by The sons aged 16 and Indonesia’s 18 rode a motorcycle onto counterterrorism police the grounds of the Santa with US and Australian support. Its leaders were Maria Church and detonated killed in police raids and their explosives hundreds of militants were there, he said. (AP)