The police headquarters in Indonesia's second largest city was attacked Monday by suspected militants who detonated explosives from a motorcycle, a day after suicide bombings at three churches in the city by members of one family killed a number of people. Indonesia has long struggled with Islamist militancy, including the 2002 Bali bombings that killed over 200 people — mostly foreign tourists — in the country’s worst-ever terror attack. But that changed Sunday as a family of six — including two young girls — staged suicide bombings of churches during morning services in the country’s second biggest city Surabaya, killing 14. The father of the church suicide bombers was a local leader in extremist network Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) which supports IS. “It ordered and gave instructions for its cells to make a move,” Mr. Karnavian said of the church attacks.

Source: The Hindu May 14, 2018 08:15 UTC