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A family of six staged suicide bombings at three Indonesian churches during church services on Sunday, killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens. The family - a mother and father, two daughters aged nine and 12, and two sons aged 16 and 18 - were linked to local extremist network Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) Read more

Bomb attacks at three churches in Indonesia... Read more]]> A family of six staged suicide bombings at three Indonesian churches during church services on Sunday, killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens.

The family - a mother and father, two daughters aged nine and 12, and two sons aged 16 and 18 - were linked to local extremist network Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) which supports IS, said national police chief Tito Karnavian.

Local media reports say they may have returned from Syria, where hundreds of Indonesians have flocked in recent years to fight alongside IS.

The mother and her two daughters were wearing niqab face veils and had bombs strapped to their waists as they entered the grounds of the Kristen Indonesia Diponegoro Church and blew themselves up, said national police chief Tito Karnavian.

The father, JAD cell leader Dita Priyanto, drove a bomb-laden car into the Surabaya Centre Pentecostal Church.

His sons rode motorcycles into Santa Maria church where they detonated explosives they were carrying.

A police bomb squad also safely detonated an unexploded bomb that was discovered at the Surabaya Centre Pentecostal Church.

Police said four suspected JAD members were also killed on Sunday in a shootout during raids linked to a deadly prison riot this week.

Five members of Indonesia's elite anti-terrorism squad, and a prisoner, were killed in clashes that saw Islamist inmates take a guard hostage at a high-security jail on the outskirts of Jakarta. IS claimed responsibility.

Karnavian said Sunday's attacks may have been revenge for the arrest of some of JAD's leaders and for the prison crisis which eventually saw the surrender of the radical inmates.

"The incident angered them ... and there were instructions from IS in Syria, so they waited for a moment to take revenge," he said.

The Pope offered support over "the severe attack against places of worship," while President Joko Widodo called for Indonesians to "unite against terrorism."

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Bomb attacks at three churches in Indonesia]]> 107117 Catholics in Nigeria ‘desperate' after suicide-bomb attack https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/11/06/catholics-in-nigeria-desperate-after-suicide-bomb-attack/ Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:30:56 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=36194 Catholic clergy and people in Nigeria are at a point of "near desperation" after the a suicide-bomb attack on a church during Mass, according to the president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference. Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama wrote about "seeing children, women and men bombed out of existence". The October 28 bomb, the latest in a series Read more

Catholics in Nigeria ‘desperate' after suicide-bomb attack... Read more]]> Catholic clergy and people in Nigeria are at a point of "near desperation" after the a suicide-bomb attack on a church during Mass, according to the president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference.

Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama wrote about "seeing children, women and men bombed out of existence". The October 28 bomb, the latest in a series of attacks on Catholic churches, killed eight people and injured 134, 75 of them critically.

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