Multiple explosions shook a mosque at a high school during Friday prayers in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta, injuring at least 54 people, most of them students.
Witnesses said they heard two loud blasts in the afternoon just as the sermon had started at the mosque at SMA 27, a state high school within a navy compound in northern Kelapa Gading. Everyone present ran out in panic as grey smoke filled the mosque.
Most of the victims suffered minor to severe injuries from glass shards. The cause of the blasts was not immediately known, but they occurred close to the mosque's loudspeaker, Jakarta Police Chief Asep Edi Suheri said.
The injured were rushed to nearby hospitals, where 20 students were still admitted, three of them with serious injuries. Suheri said an anti-bomb squad found toy rifles and a toy gun near the mosque.
“We are in the process of determining the cause of the blasts. Let’s avoid any speculation till the police investigation is completed. We will convey whatever the results are to the public,” Suheri said.
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