The Jakarta Post, 5/25/2004 1:47:45 PM
Bombing at Ambon market kills one, wounds 13
AMBON, Maluku (AFP): A bomb killed one person and injured 13 people in the
Christian sector here on Tuesday and police defused another device planted near a
church.
The blast at Batumeja market at around 10:30 a.m. -- the third in the city in three
days -- sparked panic among residents and shoppers.
A nurse at Bakti Rahayu hospital said nine injured people were being treated, of
whom three were in serious condition. A nurse at the Maluku Protestant Church
Hospital said five people were admitted and one of them later died.
City police chief Leonidas Braksan said officers defused a bomb planted in the
grounds of Maranatha church. He said a suspected bomb at the tax office turned out
to be a false alarm.
The city in the eastern Maluku islands is still recovering from an outbreak of
Muslim-Christian violence which began on April 25. Some 38 people were killed and
hundreds of homes and other buildings were torched.
Sporadic violence is continuing even though the government has sent in hundreds of
extra troops and police.
Two blasts on Sunday injured five Christians in what national police chief Da'i Bachtiar
described as an attempt to provoke more trouble.
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