ISIS claims responsibility for Jakarta bus station attacks

The father of Indonesia police officer Imam Gilang Adinata, a victim of the blasts, prays near the coffin of his son, in Jakarta, May 25, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS

CAIRO (REUTERS) - Islamic State in Iraq and Syria claimed responsibility for Jakarta bus station attacks that left at least three policemen dead and 12 others wounded on Wednesday (May 24).

"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.

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