Thursday, 10 Oct 2024

Indonesian church suicide bombers are husband and wife, married six months ago

JAKARTA – Two suicide bombers who blew themselves up at the gate of a Catholic church in South Sulawesi’s provincial capital Makassar on Sunday (March 28) are a married couple, the Indonesian police said on Monday.

A blast at the cathedral on Palm Sunday, the first day of the Holy Week leading up to Good Friday and Easter, killed both bombers, who carried out the attack with a pressure cooker bomb, and injured 19 people, including the church’s security officers and churchgoers.

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