Image copyright EPA At least seven people were killed in a series of explosions in the capital of Jakarta, Indonesia, according to local police. The attack involved at least four suicide.
It was reported earlier that on the main street near the police post six explosions thundered. After about a half hour started to receive information about new explosions.
According to a police spokesman in Jakarta, found the bodies of four of the attackers, being sought other participants attacks.
According to police, the attacks involving both at least 14 militants.
Correspondent BBC BBC in Indonesia reported that police closed part of the central area where the explosions occurred, local residents and office workers evacuated.
According to the Associated Press, three suicide bombers blew themselves up in a Starbucks coffee shop in the city center, two more armed men attacked a police post in the same area, killing a police officer.
shelled a police post disappeared, their persecuted by the police.
At the center of the city strapped army units on the streets were armored personnel carriers.
According to the agency Reuters intelligence official in Indonesia, so far nothing points to a connection of attacks with the activities of an extremist group “Islamic State” (forbidden in Russia).
According to the Indonesian television station TVOne, three more blasts near the embassies of Turkey and Pakistan , on victims and affected until there is no information.
The President of Indonesia Joko Widodo called a series of attacks in Jakarta, acts of terrorism and expressed his condolences to the families of the dead.
Responsibility for the attack has not yet assumed no from extremist groups.
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