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| Indonesia attack: Single family blamed for series of deadly suicide attacks on churches | |
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| A series of deadly suicide bomb attacks on Indonesian churches claimed by IS were carried out by members of a single family, according to police. | A series of deadly suicide bomb attacks on Indonesian churches claimed by IS were carried out by members of a single family, according to police. |
| The national police chief, Tito Karnavian, said Sunday's attacks, which killed at least 11 people and injured more than 40 others, were carried out by children, teens and adults from a family who had been in Syria. | |
| He said the family's father exploded a car bomb, two sons aged 18 and 16 used a motorbike in their attack and the mother was with two children aged 12 and 9. | |
| "The husband drove the car, an Avanza, that contained explosives and rammed it into the gate in front of that church," East Java police spokesman Frans Barung Mangera told reporters at the regional police headquarters in Surabaya. | |
| The wife and two daughters were involved in an attack on a second church and at the third church "two other children rode the motorbike and had the bomb across their laps," he said. | |
| Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks in Surabaya, Indonesia's second-largest city, the Islamist militant group's Amaq news agency said, without providing any substantiating evidence to support their claim. | |
| The near-simultaneous attacks took place during Sunday morning masses in the predominantly Muslim country, days after police ended a riot at a detention centre following a 36-hour standoff that left five dead and five injured and hostages were taken. | |
| On Friday, a group of 70 prominent Muslim scholars meeting in Bogor, Indonesia, made a joint declaration denouncing violent extremism and terrorism, including suicide attacks, which they categorically stated are against Islamic principles. | |
| Indonesia has carried out a sustained crackdown on militant since bombings by al-Qaeda-affiliated radicals in Bali in 2002 killed 202 people. | |
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