[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A would-be jacket wallah’s explosives failed to detonate in a packed church in western Indonesia during Sunday Mass, and he injured a priest with an axe before being restrained, police said.
The 18-year-old assailant left a bench and ran toward the priest at the altar, but a bomb in his backpack only burned without exploding, said national police front man Maj. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar.
Before he was restrained by members of the congregation, the man managed to take an axe from the backpack and attacked the Rev. Albert Pandiangan, causing a slight injury to the 60-year-old priest’s hand, Amar said.
The motive for the attack at the Roman Catholic St. Yoseph Church in Medan, the capital of North Sumatra province, was not clear, but the perpetrator carried a symbol indicating support for the ISIS.
Police were interrogating the man, who told them he was not working alone, Amar said, without providing details.
Eyewitness account
An eyewitness, Markus Harianto Manullan, said the assailant wore a jacket and carried a bag.
"He sat in the same row as I did... I saw him fiddling with something in his jacket, and then I heard a small kaboom and he immediately ran to the podium," Manullan said.
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"The motive for the attack was not clear".
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Moslemturbans supporting the ISIS group freed eight fellow gunnies in a daring attack that also allowed 15 other inmates to escape from a provincial jail in the southern Philippines, police said on Sunday.
About 20 heavily-armed fighters of the Maute bad boy group stormed the Lanao del Sur provincial jail in Marawi city before nightfall on Saturday, disarmed the guards and rescued their eight comrades. The attackers also seized two rifles from guards, police said.
The eight who escaped were tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... a week ago when they were caught with a homemade bomb in van at a security checkpoint.
The others who escaped, apparently to divert the attention of authorities, were facing murder and illegal drugs charges.
The Maute group is a new band of armed Moslem radicals, who have pledged allegiance to the ISIS group and use black flags with logos of the Middle East-based turbans.
[Philippine Star} At least 22 Abu Sayyaf militants have been killed in ongoing military operations in Patikul, Sulu that began on Friday, following President Duterte's orders to crush the rebels.
Joint Task Force Sulu commander Arnel dela Vega yesterday reported no casualty among Philippine troops in the clash.
The security force launched an attack an Abu Sayyaf stronghold in Barangay Latih on Saturday, killing three militants. The soldiers gave chase to the more than a hundred Abu Sayyaf militants that managed to escape following the encounter on Friday in Barangay Bungkaong.
Last Friday's encounter left 11 rebels dead, including Abu Sayyaf sub-leader Mohammad Said, alias Ama Maas. Eight other rebels were confirmed dead, based on reports about bodies found at the scene of the firefight.
President Duterte had ordered the military to go after the Abu Sayyaf following the beheading of James Patrick Almodovar last week. The militants kidnapped Almodovar last July 16 outside his home in Jolo. The rebels beheaded the 18-year-old after the deadline to pay P1-million ransom lapsed Wednesday afternoon.
Responding to the incident, Duterte vowed on Thursday to annihilate the insurgent group. He said,"My order to the police and to the armed forces: seek them out in their lairs and destroy them."
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