Indonesian police probe Islamic State involvement in bus station blasts
Jakarta
INDONESIA'S anti-terrorism unit raided the home of a suspected suicide bomber on Thursday as the authorities linked attacks that killed three police officers at a Jakarta bus station a day earlier to the Islamic State (ISIS) militant group.
Six police officers and six civilians were also wounded in the twin blasts set off five minutes apart by two attackers in the Kampung Melayu area of the Indonesian capital late on Wednesday, police said.
The incident was the deadliest in Indonesia since January 2016, when eight people were killed, four of them attackers, afte…
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