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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Niniek Karmini

Indonesian authorities identify 17-year-old suspect after mosque attack injures at least 54 people

Indonesian authorities said on Friday they have identified a 17-year-old boy as the suspect in an attack that shook a mosque at a high school in the capital Jakarta, injuring at least 54 people.

Witnesses told local television stations that they heard at least two loud blasts around midday, just as the sermon had started at Friday prayers, from inside and outside the mosque at SMA 72, a state high school within a navy compound in Jakarta’s northern Kelapa Gading neighbourhood.

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