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Catholic church in Indonesia targeted in suspected suicide bombing
A suspected suicide attack on a Catholic church in Indonesia has injured 14 people, police say.
Key points:
- National police believe two people carried out the attack on the church
- The attack comes at the start of one of the most important weeks in the Catholic Church
- The head of the country’s counter-terrorism agency described the attack as terrorism
Initial reports from local police said there was one attacker who was the lone fatality.
However, national police now say two people are believed to have carried out the attack.
The incident happened in the city of Makassar on Sunday morning.
The congregation had been inside the church on the island of Sulawesi at the time of the explosion.
Father Wilhemus Tulak, a priest at the church, told…
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