Mosque bombed
NZPA-Reuter Jakarta I A military spokesman has; confirmed that an explosion at Indonesia’s most. presti-| pious Muslim house of w<J r *; ship, the Jakarta Istiqlal ( (Freedom) Grand Mosque, ■ was caused by a dynamite b°The explosion. which rocked the SNZS6 million mosque near the Presidential Palace last Friday evening shortly after prayer services, was heard hundreds of yards awayEight persons were found inside the huge white marble
i building, which can accommodate 100,000 people and ; ranks among the world’s (five biggest mosques. i One of them was seriously i injured in the blast while ’praying and was still in hospital yesterday. The others were detained for questioning and had not been released yesterday morning. The motive for the bomb ! attack on the Istiqlal Grand Mosque, which took almost 15 years to build and was only recently dedicated by . President Suharto.' has not been clearly established.
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