Would-be bomber fails to detonate in Indonesian church

JAKARTA — Police in western Indonesia say a would-be suicide bomber failed to detonate explosives in a packed church during Sunday Mass (Aug 28).
National police spokesman Maj Gen. Boy Rafli Amar says the assailant left a bench and ran toward a priest
at the altar but a bomb in his backpack apparently did not detonate and left the attacker injured.

Mr Amar says the man kept running toward the priest with a burning backpack as the congregation chased and captured him.
The motive of the attack is not clear.
Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, has suffered a spate of deadly attacks by Muslim militants since the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people. AP


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