frostfire
01-14-2016, 21:05
Here we go again. Between their soft approach and the Densus 88 (trained and heavily invested in by US and AUS), the overall consensus is they got terrorism under control there. We'll see how this one goes.
http://www.benarnews.org/english/news/indonesian/breaking-attack-01142016093341.html
According to witness and police accounts, a man blew himself up in a Starbucks café adjacent to the Sarinah Department Store on Thamrin Street.
The attackers also took two hostages – a Dutch national and an Algerian – who later escaped but were shot and wounded, police spokesman Anton Charliyan said.
Gunmen stationed outside the café targeted panicked people who rushed out of the Starbucks.
A witness, Tri Heriyanto, said he heard two explosions in the Starbucks around 10:35 a.m. and, shortly thereafter, another blast that seemed to come from a police post at the intersection of Thamrin and Wahid Hasyim streets, 10 meters (32.8 feet) from the Starbucks.
“After the third explosion, people started swarming toward that police station, but then there were gunshots and you could see it was police who were being targeted,” said Tri, who works at a bank nearby.
Police officer Feri Siregar said he and his colleagues were shot at as they pulled up to the intersection on motorcycles after being called to the scene.
The gunmen wore black shirts and hats, and carried backpacks, he said.
“As far as I could see, there were two people,” Feri told BenarNews.
He could not see their faces nor could he hear them say anything.
“But they seemed very relaxed. I even saw one of the shooters reloading his gun before shooting at us again.”
Attackers also lobbed explosives at police. A video widely circulated online showed police trying to escape the onslaught by jumping over vegetation that bordered the street.
"I don’t have a weapon. I chose to save myself,” said Panjaitan, a police officer that BenarNews encountered in the yard of the Jaya Building across the street. His uniform was stained with mud.
‘We will not be defeated’
Police said three militants were killed by gunfire and two from bomb blasts. Of the 24 injured, six were police.
http://www.benarnews.org/english/news/indonesian/breaking-attack-01142016093341.html
According to witness and police accounts, a man blew himself up in a Starbucks café adjacent to the Sarinah Department Store on Thamrin Street.
The attackers also took two hostages – a Dutch national and an Algerian – who later escaped but were shot and wounded, police spokesman Anton Charliyan said.
Gunmen stationed outside the café targeted panicked people who rushed out of the Starbucks.
A witness, Tri Heriyanto, said he heard two explosions in the Starbucks around 10:35 a.m. and, shortly thereafter, another blast that seemed to come from a police post at the intersection of Thamrin and Wahid Hasyim streets, 10 meters (32.8 feet) from the Starbucks.
“After the third explosion, people started swarming toward that police station, but then there were gunshots and you could see it was police who were being targeted,” said Tri, who works at a bank nearby.
Police officer Feri Siregar said he and his colleagues were shot at as they pulled up to the intersection on motorcycles after being called to the scene.
The gunmen wore black shirts and hats, and carried backpacks, he said.
“As far as I could see, there were two people,” Feri told BenarNews.
He could not see their faces nor could he hear them say anything.
“But they seemed very relaxed. I even saw one of the shooters reloading his gun before shooting at us again.”
Attackers also lobbed explosives at police. A video widely circulated online showed police trying to escape the onslaught by jumping over vegetation that bordered the street.
"I don’t have a weapon. I chose to save myself,” said Panjaitan, a police officer that BenarNews encountered in the yard of the Jaya Building across the street. His uniform was stained with mud.
‘We will not be defeated’
Police said three militants were killed by gunfire and two from bomb blasts. Of the 24 injured, six were police.