Jakarta blasts - Six Killed as Massive Blasts, Gunfire Rock Jakarta, Indonesia

At least six people were killed amid several large explosions and gunshots Thursday near a popular shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia, police said.
An Indonesian police spokesman told Reuters that three police officers and three civilians were killed in the attacks mainly in front of the Sarinah mall, which is in a district of the capital that is home to luxury hotels and foreign embassies.

                                        Indonesian police take position and aim their weapons as they pursue suspects outside a cafe after a series of blasts hit the capital, Jakarta, on Thursday. — Getty Images

Indonesian police take position and aim their weapons as they pursue suspects outside a cafe after a series of blasts hit the capital, Jakarta, on Thursday. Bay Ismoyo / AFP — Getty Images

The U.S. Embassy issued an alert urging U.S. citizens to avoid the area, saying the "situation continues to unfold."
"The Starbucks cafe windows are blown out. I see three dead people on the road," Reuters quoted one of its photographers as saying. "There has been a lull in the shooting, but someone is on the roof of the building, and police are aiming their guns at him."   

National police spokesman Anton Charliyan told reporters that investigators didn't yet know who was responsible, but he added: "We have previously received a threat from Islamic State [ISIS] that Indonesia will be [in] the spotlight."
Before the attacks, Dewi Fortuna Anwar, an adviser to Vice President Jusuf Kalla, warned at a regional forum in Singapore on Wednesday that Indonesia could be "very vulnerable" to strikes by Indonesian members of ISIS.

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