ISIS backers claim responsibility for Paris-style terror attack in Jakarta
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Attackers set off a series of explosions in a bustling shopping area of Indonesia’s capital city Thursday morning in what authorities said was an imitation of last November’s terror attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. Backers of the Islamic State terror group claimed responsibility.
All five attackers and a Canadian and Indonesian died in the mid-morning explosions and gunfire not far from the presidential palace and the U.S. Embassy, police said. Another 19 people were injured.
When the area was finally secured a few hours later, bodies were sprawled on sidewalks. But given the firepower the attackers carried — handguns, grenades and homemade bombs — and the soft targets they picked in a bustling, crowded area, the casualties were relatively few compared to the mayhem and carnage caused by the Paris attacks.
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