Failed Suicide Bomber Attack in Java

[kellyhound]

Central Java Police investigators have scoured a security post in the Tugu Tani area in Kartasura for evidence, following a failed bombing attack that injured the suspected bomber on Monday evening.

According to Antara news agency, personnel from the Densus 88 antiterror squad also searched the home of the 22-year-old suspect in Wirogunan village, Sukoharjo regency, early on Tuesday

Wirogunan village head Marjono said he had been tasked with accompanying the police as they collected evidence from the house, which included sulfur, wires, a cellphone, a switch and aluminum foil.

“I don’t remember every piece [ of evidence]. Police placed all the evidence into big cardboard boxes and took them away,” Marjono told.

The police’s forensics investigators had arrived at the bombing scene at 7 a.m. to collect shrapnel.

A suspected suicide bomber detonated a blast in front of the police post late on Monday evening.

The suspect sustained severe injuries on his legs and hands. He was taken to the nearby PKU Muhammadiyah and Moewardi Surakarta hospitals before later being taken to the Bhayangkara Police hospital in Semarang.

No casualties were reported in the attack.

National Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Dedi Prasetyo said investigators were working to ascertain the motive behind the foiled bombing.

“We are investigating whether the attack is related to certain [terror] groups or launched by a lone wolf,” Dedi was quoted.

In May last year, a family of six carried out three deadly bombings at three churches in Surabaya, East Java. They were all killed in the attack, along with at least seven other people.

Later that same day, a bomb prematurely exploded in nearby Sidoarjo, killing two adults and their son who were believed to have been planning a terror attack in the city.

https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/...kartasura.html

[William May]

If I was a passersby, I would say that the proper course, to prevent any further explosions, would be to pour gas on him and light it off, thus slowly burning any other explosives he may have had with him, and preventing further public risk.

[Oswald2001]

Deserves all the pain in the world.