Explosions at Austrailian Embassy in Jakarta...

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Bomb Kills 3, Wounds 50 in Jakarta
Thursday, September 09, 2004

JAKARTA, Indonesia — A powerful bomb exploded near the Australian Embassy in Jakarta (search) on Thursday, killing at least three people and wounding 50, witnesses and officials said.

No one inside the heavily fortified embassy was wounded in the blast, though windows were shattered, said Lyndall Sachs, a spokeswoman for the Australian foreign ministry in Canberra. Local security officials said that an Indonesian security guard manning a post outside the gate was among the three dead.

In the same neighborhood last year, a homicide attack at the JW Marriott hotel (search) killed 12 people. Australia, the United States and several other countries have recently warned that Muslim militants may be planning new attacks in Indonesia.

Hospital officials said that more than 50 people were wounded.

"We are sure this is a bomb," said Lt. Darminto, a Jakarta police officer at the scene.

An AP photographer on the scene saw at least three dismembered bodies on the wide six-lane street close to the embassy. Four cars and the embassy's high metal fence were damaged. The windows on several surrounding high-rise buildings were smashed.


In recent weeks several Western embassies, including those of the United States and Australia, have warned their citizens about possible attacks by Muslim militants.

In 2002, more than two hundred people died in an attack on two nightclubs on the tourist island of Bali.

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Why am I not surprised?