This Article is From May 26, 2017

ISIS Claims Responsibility For Jakarta Bus Station Attacks

The attack was the deadliest in Indonesia since January 2016.

ISIS Claims Responsibility For Jakarta Bus Station Attacks

Three policemen died and 12 others were wounded in the Jakarta bus station attack.

Cairo, Egypt: ISIS clamed responsibility for Jakarta bus station attacks that left at least three policemen dead and 12 others wounded on Wednesday.

"The executor of the attack on the Indonesian police gathering in Jakarta was an Islamic State fighter," the group's news agency Amaq said.

The attack was the deadliest in Indonesia since January 2016, when eight people were killed, four of them attackers, after suicide bombers and gunmen attacked the capital.

(Reporting by Ali Abdelatti; Writing by Amina Ismail; Editing by Chris Reese)
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