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| Bomb in Central Indonesia's Sulawesi Kills Three, Police Says |
| 2004-11-13 |
| Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- A bomb went off in front of a busy market in Poso in central Indonesia's Sulawesi province on Saturday morning, killing three people and injuring at least seven, local police said. The bomb exploded at about 9:20 a.m. Sulawesi time, next to a mini bus parked about 50 meters outside the Poso police station, said Abdi Darma, head of the town police. The explosion damaged at least two vehicles parked near the minivan, he said. ``The bomb exploded when the market is full of people shopping'' to celebrate next week's Eid al-Fitr festival, Darma said. The police has tightened security around the town's borders, he said. Sporadic violence persists in Sulawesi, even after a government-brokered truce in December 2001 ended three years of ethnic conflict between feuding Christians and Muslims. As many as 2,000 people died and 100,000 were forced to flee their homes during the conflict. |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |
| #2 I'm gonna take a risk on this one and speculate the Religion of Peace™ might be involved. That OK with you, Aris? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-11-13 3:29:33 PM |
| #1 "The bomb exploded when the market is full of people shopping" to celebrate next week’s Eid al-Fitr festival, Darma said. Makes it sound like the the poor Muslims were being victimized. But from the other Sulawesi thread: Three people were killed instantly on the bus and six others were injured. Trenggonno declined to identify the victims but acknowledged the bus was heading to the Christian village Silancak. Trenggonno said no one has been arrested but they were searching for two men seen leaving the scene on a motorcycle. "Witnesses saw the men put something in the minibus before running away," he said. Motorcycles of Doom and bombing of a bus going to a |
| Posted by: ed 2004-11-13 1:30:01 PM |