Indonesian police have blamed Islamist radicals for a low-powered
explosive that detonated in the toilet of a mall on the outskirts of Jakarta on
Thursday that mirrored a blast at another mall in February.
CCTV footage showed a
man walking into the toilet at the ground floor of the Alam Sutera mall, on the
western outskirts of the capital, carrying a bag and exiting shortly before the
blast occurred.
The Alam Sutera blast
bore similar hallmarks to the low-powered detonation of a chlorine
bomb at the ITC Depok on the southern outskirts of Jakarta on Feb.
23.
That incident was the
first known use in Indonesia of a chlorine bomb, which has been used
extensively by Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq. No one was injured in
the Depok blast.
Police blamed the
Depok incident on Indonesians who had returned from fighting alongside Islamic
State in Syria, although they have still not named any suspects in the case.
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