A family of Islamist militants in Indonesia carried an eight-year-old into a suicide bomb attack against police in Surabaya on Monday, a day after another militant family killed 13 people in suicide attacks on three churches in the same city. Four officers and six civilians were wounded in the attack, East Java police spokesman Frans Barung Mangera said. Earlier, police said his family was among 500 Islamic State sympathisers who had returned from Syria, but the police chief said that was incorrect. Mr Karnavian said the JAD attacks used a powerful home-made explosive triacetone triperoxide (TATP), known as the “mother of Satan”, and commonly used in Islamic State-inspired attacks. Security experts said the attacks represented the first time in Indonesia that children had been used by militants on a suicide mission.

Source: The Irish Times May 14, 2018 09:33 UTC