December 2005 Palu bombing
- December 2005 Palu bombing
At 7:05am December 31, 2005, a nail bomb detonated outside a Palu market stall selling pork at a marketplace in Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province.
It left eight people dead and injured 45, and early suggestions indicate the target may have been chosen to maximise Christian casualties, in a region torn with Muslim/Christian hostilities, including the 2002 Bali bombing orchestrated by Abu Bakar Bashir.
A single person was arrested the same day, according to a report by provincial police chief Oegroseno, although it was unclear whether he was a direct suspect, police would only say that he had been acting suspiciously and asked vendors where they lived [http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2006/January/theworld_January7.xml§ion=theworld&col=] . A second undetonated bomb was found four metres from the initial blast. [http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/31/content_3994608.htm] The bombs were believed to have been dropped from a passing car.
The bombings were condemned by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, at a time when 47,000 soldiers and police were on heightened alert after warnings that militants could be planning a terror attack to coincide with the Christmas holiday.
External links
* [http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/12/31/indonesia.blast.ap/index.html "8 dead in Indonesian market blast"] , "CNN"
* [http://www.malra.org/posko/malra.php4?nr=40972 Identification of Dead]
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