Bomb targeting the Presidential Palace found and safely detonated in Bekasi

[El_Goretto]

A planned suicide bombing attack on the Presidential Palace was foiled when the police found and safely detonated a bomb in Bekasi. Apparently they arrested a woman who was planning on blowing herself up with it.

More info in this NY Times article.

 

[fastpitch17]

Four arrested now. I have to question the suicide part since they reported the bomb to be a pressure cooker type. Perhaps suicide if caught trying to place it somewhere.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/...two-being-hunted-in-jakarta-bombing-plot.html

 

[Anglian]

30 kg, that certainly would make an impression

 

[Nimbus]

The bombs in Boston were pressure cooker types too, so they were reading the same bomb manual...

 

[atlantis]

30 kg, that certainly would make an impression

Huh? Local medias (both Tempo and Kompas) talk about 3 kg, not 30 kg.

 

[Anglian]

It was an the write up on the news this morning, I must say I though 30 kg, was rather over the top, but then who knows, I was thinking more of a car bomb

 

[Nimbus]

I think 30 kg of explosive material doesn't fit in a panci presto. Gegana apparently didn't want to take any risk, so they detonated the explosive in the kost. If that was 30 kg the entire house would have been flattened.
https://m.detik.com/news/berita/336...ar-dian-si-pengantin-usai-digeledah-densus-88

 

[Wisnu]

In 24 hours 4 bombs blast, Cairo, Istanbul, Mogadishu, Aden and jakarta almost the fifth.

 

[Vanhelsing]

The bombs in Boston were pressure cooker types too, so they were reading the same bomb manual...

During the maoist rebellion of Nepal all pressure cookers were banned from sale throughout the country such was their effectiveness. At one time I lived in the mountains of Northern India and had the experience of finding my kitchen destroyed by a pressure cooker that had exploded while I was away for an hour.

 

[sumyunggai]

Must be them damn Buddhists again.

 

[scouser59]

Must be them damn Buddhists again.

ha ha !