At least two dead, 13 injured in Indonesia church attacks: police

Indonesian bomb squade examine the site following a suicide bomb outside a church in Surabaya on May 13, 2018. (Photo: AFP PHOTO / JUNI KRISWANTO)


At least two people were killed and 13 others injured in bomb attacks, including a suicide blast, targeting churches in Indonesia’s second biggest city Surabaya, police said on Sunday.

“There have been three attacks at three churches,” East Java Police spokesman Frans Barung Mangera said.

The deadly blasts all occurred within 10 minutes of each other, police said, with the first explosion at 7.30 am.