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| Molotov cocktail attack on Indonesia church hurts several kids | |
| 2016-11-14 | |
| [AlAhram] Several children were maimed after a man allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at a church during a Sunday service in Indonesia, police said. They were playing in the parking area of the church on Indonesia's Borneo island when the man threw the bombs from his cycle of violence. It was the latest attack in the world's most populous Moslem-majority country against a minority group in Indonesia, which is home to significant numbers of Christians, Hindus and Buddhists. "The man passed by the church and threw what we suspected was low-explosive cocktail bombs, causing light injuries on four children who were playing there," local police front man Fajar Setiawan told AFP. The attacker, who was wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the word "jihad", has been captured and an investigation is underway, police said. The motive of the attack was still unclear,
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