Indonesian police shot dead an attacker during a firefight at a government office Monday after a small bomb was set…
BANDUNG, Indonesia —
Indonesian police shot dead an attacker during a firefight at a government office Monday after a small bomb was set off in a public park.
No one apart from the attacker was hurt in the incident in the major city of Bandung on Java island, which police said was linked to a “terrorist network”.
It was the latest assault in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, where there has been a surge in attacks and plots linked to the Islamic State (IS) group.
After the blast at about 8:30 a.m., which witnesses said came from a bomb made from a pressure cooker, the attacker fled into a building belonging to local authorities.
Police exchanged fire with the man inside and part of the building was set ablaze during the hour-long standoff.
The attacker, whom authorities did not identify, was shot during the firefight and died later in hospital.
Local police chief Anton Charliyan said nobody else had been hurt and everyone had been evacuated from the building.
