Jakarta, 5 April (AKI) At least two police officers were killed Wednesday in an explosion at an Indonesian police compound in the western city of Medan, the capital of the province of Sumatra, according to the Indonesian television station, Metro TV. A number of people were also injured, the report said. The cause of the blast is still unknown and the authorities have sealed off the area. The police compound houses the elite Mobile Brigade. Without citing sources, Metro TV reported that the blast occured as the officers were practicing defusing bombs, while some other reports suggested that the blast occured at the anti-terrorism unit or at the police forensic lab. | Could have been an accident, I suppose. |
Reports say that the injured are being treated at a police hospital in the city. Indonesia has been on high alert after both the United States and Australia warned last week of possible attacks on Westerners in the country. There have been several attacks in the past few years on Western targets believed to have been carried out by al-Qaeda linked militants. |