They would be due i kamikaze died after having launched a motorcycle loaded with explosives against a Catholic cathedral in Makassar, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The local police reported. The injured would be at least 14, including five faithful who had just left the church to attend Mass on Palm Sunday.
“There were two people aboard a motorcycle when the explosion occurred in front of the church’s main gate,” said a spokesman for the national police, Argo Yuwono, “the bombers were trying to enter the church compound.” “The motorcycle was destroyed and there are human remains that we are still collecting in an attempt to identify the sex of the attackers,” the spokesman added.
In Indonesia, the most populated Muslim-majority country in the world, Christian churches are often the target of Islamic extremists. In 2018, a suicide attack on a church in Surabaya caused ten deaths
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