Police described the 25-year-old woman as “a lone wolf with the radical ideology of the Islamic State.”
April 01, 2021
A police armored vehicle is parked outside the National Police Headquarters following a suspected militant attack in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 31, 2021.
Credit: AP Photo/Dita Alangkara
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A woman entered Indonesia’s National Police Headquarters in Jakarta and fired a gun at several officers before being shot dead by police, in the latest militant attack in the world’s most populous Muslim nation, officials said. There were no reports of injuries among the police.
Authorities had earlier imposed a counterterrorism crackdown and were on heightened alert for possible attacks against police and places of worship following a suicide bombing during Palm Sunday Mass at a Roman Catholic cathedral on Sulawesi island which wounded at least 20 people.