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Multiple explosions shook a mosque astatine a precocious schoolhouse during Friday (November 11, 2025) prayers successful Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, injuring astatine slightest 54 people, mostly students, constabulary said.
Witnesses told section tv stations that they heard astatine slightest 2 large blasts astir midday, conscionable arsenic the sermon had started astatine the mosque astatine SMA 27, a authorities precocious schoolhouse wrong a navy compound successful Jakarta's bluish Kelapa Gading neighbourhood. Students and others ran retired successful panic arsenic grey fume filled the mosque.
Most of the victims suffered insignificant to terrible injuries from solid shards. The origin of the blasts was not instantly known but they came from adjacent the mosque's loudspeaker, according to Jakarta Police Chief Asep Edi Suheri.
Indonesian subject Combat Engineering Detachment (Denzipur) unit carrying explosive detection instrumentality get aft an detonation occurred astatine a schoolhouse analyzable successful Jakarta, Indonesia, connected November 7, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters
People were rushed to adjacent hospitals. Some were soon sent location but 20 students stay successful infirmary care, 3 of them with superior injuries, the constabulary main said.
Mr. Suheri said an anti-bomb squad that was deployed astatine the country recovered artifact rifles and a artifact weapon adjacent the mosque.
“Police are inactive investigating the country to find the origin of the blasts,” Mr. Suheri said, and urged against speculation that the incidental was an onslaught earlier constabulary probe is completed.
“Let the authorities enactment first,” Mr. Suheri said. “We volition convey immoderate the results are to the public.”
