the isis, for example, and trying to lure them in to joining their caliphate in syria. a few hundreds have gone there so far. the concern now is what, if any indonesians, have come back here from syria, came back here more determined or more capable of launching attacks in indonesia. kathy, let s talk about that. there has been no claim of responsibility at this point, at least. it is fairly early. but we know that there has been heightened alert there in jakarta and across indonesia for fears of this east indonesia. talk to us about that group. how many people are involved. the leader, what sort of threat they pose, and what sort of attacks they have carried out in the past. reporter: well, you know, we spoke to several terror analysts here and even police authorities
low. although, there were some concerns earlier there may be more victims in the cafe when it happened. we haven t heard any more information about that yet. we have to point out that the counterterrorism authorities here, anti-terrorism police, e even the police force in general, they re highly trained simply because indonesia has been a target of many attacks in the past. you have bigger ones that had more casualties here. and they ve got a lot of training from their counterparts from australia and the united states. and they re very highly trained. the one aspect of the counterterrorism efforts here that s been commended here. what authorities said that they were focusing more was a soft approach, and trying to stop the radicalization of many indonesian muslims who may be attracted to the teachings of
as i said, earlier a tense situation. it was heavily guarded. protected from all sides. it s an intersection which is just in front of the police station. and it s surrounded by office buildings, commercial establishments. there are side streets as well in the area, and the suspect would have fled through that building outside to the side street by the skyline building. it seems as i left, that things died down. we saw . so at this point, it appears from you re saying that this has come to an end, this incident, that these four suspects apparently, we re hearing from cnn indonesia, confirmation that the four suspects were killed in that jakarta attack, so now we
jakarta, indonesia. four people are dead including a policeman in the explosion in the city center. just one of several blasts that happened in the capital. so far, no claim of responsibility at this point, but as always, suspicion is falling on isis. a police spokesman said the attackers used grenades as they targeted a police station. a gun fight broke out between officers and the attackers. right now, police are surrounding a building in their search for the suspects. quick check of other news right now. the circumstances of the release of ten american sailors from iranian custody is now in question. and they were captured on tuesday after two patrol boats entered iranian walters. iranian television showed a sailor said to be the commander apologizes for the mistake. it was our fault. it was a misunderstanding. we did not mean to go into iranian territorial water. we thank you very much for
radicalization does not spread. it s still a minority of groups who espouse to launch terror attacks in indonesia. all right. cnn s kathy joining us there from central jakarta and clarifying, six civilians killed, perhaps seven, and these numbers may rise. at this point, we know one of them is a foreigner. we do not know the nationality of that particular victim. thank you so much, kathy, for joining us. we ll return to you very soon. and at this moment, it s just past 3:00 p.m. there in jakarta. the it s the afternoon. this unfolded in the past three or four hours. this attack taking place in the middle of the day in a busy part of the city. for people there, it was extremely frightening. earlier i spoke with jeremy dougl douglas whose with the u.n. office. he witnessed the attack and earlier told me what he saw.