The JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton in Jakarta have been bombed with the death toll currently at about nine. When you let Bashir roam around the country, what else can you expect?
Current updates via Twitter #jakartabombs and Twitter #jakarta seem to be more timely than MSM. Also, do a Twitter Search for #Marriott and #RitzCarlton. Google News Indonesia has updates from news sources and blogs.
Wikipedia on Jakarta Bombings. That didn't take long!
Here's the basics from The Wall Street Journal.
Explosions ripped through the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels in Jakarta on Friday, killing at least eight people, police said.
Authorities were acting on the assumption that the bombing was carried out by Muslim extremists, said a senior counterterrorism official.
The streets outside the two hotels, which sit adjacent to each other in a new business district in central Jakarta, the capital, were covered in shattered glass and debris. The façade of the Ritz-Carlton was ripped off after an explosion in the restaurant while people were having breakfast, police said.
Police officers inspect the damage after an explosion at the Marriott hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Friday. Bombs exploded at the Ritz-Carlton and Marriott hotels in the Indonesian capital, ripping the facade off the Ritz, police said.
.Indonesia hasn't suffered a major terrorist attack since the 2005 bombings of seafood restaurants on a Bali beach. The JW Marriott was the target of an earlier bombing in 2003, in which 12 people died.
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