Jakarta attack toll rises to 8

AFP, JAKARTA: The death toll in the Jakarta extremist attack has risen to eight, including four civilian victims and four militants, after a wounded Indonesian bystander died overnight, police said Sunday. Police had earlier put the toll of victims from Thursday’s assault at two, but raised it with the latest death and confirmation that an Indonesian man originally suspected of being a militant was actually a civilian. The coordinated bomb and gun attack along the capital’s central thoroughfare has been claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group. Indonesian authorities blame it on an IS faction made up primarily of Malay-speaking Indonesians and Malaysians involved in the extremist group’s ruthless fight for a self-proclaimed caliphate in Syria and Iraq.

Jakarta attack toll rises to 8

AFP, JAKARTA: The death toll in the Jakarta extremist attack has risen to eight, including four civilian victims and four militants, after a wounded Indonesian bystander died overnight, police said Sunday. Police had earlier put the toll of victims from Thursdays assault at two, but raised it with the latest death and confirmation that an Indonesian man originally suspected of being a militant was actually a civilian. The coordinated bomb and gun attack along the capitals central thoroughfare has been claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group. Indonesian authorities blame it on an IS faction made up primarily of Malay-speaking Indonesians and Malaysians involved in the extremist groups ruthless fight for a self-proclaimed caliphate in Syria and Iraq.