Suspected suicide bombing hits Indonesian church in Makassar
- At least 14 people were wounded in the attack on the first day of the Easter Holy Week
- President Joko Widodo described the attack as terrorism, and urged people to remain calm
Two suspected suicide bombers attacked a Catholic Church in the Indonesian city of Makassar on Sunday, wounding 14 people on the first day of the Easter Holy Week, officials said.
The congregation was concluding their mass inside the church on the island of Sulawesi when the attackers detonated at least one device outside, police said. The two suspects were the only fatalities.
Authorities were looking into which radical networks the bombers came from and whether the attack was linked to recent arrests of suspected militants, national police spokesman Argo Yuwono said.
In January, a counterterrorism unit raided a militant hideout in Makassar and killed two men suspected by police of involvement in twin bombings at a Philippine church in 2019 that killed more than 20 people.