Indonesian police officer stands guard near an armored vehicle outside a church after an explosion in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011. A suicide bomber attacked the church packed with hundreds of worshippers Sunday, killing himself and wounding at least 20 other people, police and hospital officials said. (WaPo World)
A suicide bomber killed at least one parishioner after services today at a Christian Church.
The BBC reported:
At least one person has been killed and several injured by a suicide bombing at a church in Central Java, Indonesia.
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Witnesses said the bomber struck as people were leaving the Bethel Injil Sepuluh church in Keputon, Solo after a Sunday service.
Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim country but is officially a secular state.
Militant Islamist groups have carried out a number of deadly attacks in recent years.
Indonesia’s security minister Djoko Suyanto said two people had been killed – one at the church and one who died of their injuries in hospital. It is unclear if the two included the bomber.
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“Some of the wounded were treated in two hospitals in Solo, while some of them were allowed to return home,” he said.
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