that happened there between the police and the attackers. isha. if you look around you, it would appear that this is winding down, these four attackers were quite possibly the only men who were voefed in this gun and bomb attack in the indonesian capital? certainly, john, i saw a change from a very tense situation where the building was heavily guarded. it was surrounded by special forces from the police. you had civilians, policemen as well entering there. and police very harshly telling us to stay away because there was an operation going on. i could see a change. they had relaxed security around the building. i suspect there s some kind of development in terms of their pursuit of this.
and describe to us the scene around you. what doare you seeing? what sort of activity is there as far as police and security? there s a lot of comings and goings here. we saw the four ambulances that came to pick up the bodies. we confirmed they were brought in to bring the bodies of the sspects. just police officials and their cars going in and out. you see a few trucks behind me as well. and from our colleague who is down there near the skyline buildings, he said that they believe that bomb squads are still scouring the area, making sure there s no more explosives, and they ve had to run away from the building a couple of times just because they suspected they were going to detonate some explosives. again, it s just showing you how fluid the situation here is, and how tense. people still are in jakarta, so shocked by what happened here.
kathy, as we get this word from rueter, what more can you tell us? well, isha, we cannot independently confirm that information as of yet, but we do know that police were in pursuit of an armed suspect earlier after the gun fight. and the grenade explosions. and they were reportedly inside an office building, skyline building. i earlier saw heavily armed policemen, a special forces going into the building. as i left that building, i also thought it seems the operation had winded down. i m told now that police are still inside the building, although journalists and bystanders are able to go closer. and what we saw there was a starbucks cafe where the gun fight allegedly happened. all the windows are blown out in the aftermath of the gun fight
escaped from the scene and is probably armed. there s been no game claims of responsibility and police have not named any suspects. indonesia has been on high alert in recent weeks with the police and military joint operations focused on hitting the east indian mujahadin which has pledged support for isis. one gunman, maybe more is believed to have been holed it. it appeared the police were preparing to go in? that s right, john. we actually saw several dozens of them fully armed going to the building. we re actually seeing now men in civilian clothes also entering the building. the situation is quite tense around this area. it s been cordoned off. i m seeing across the street just by the side of the building where the u.n. offices are of many bystanders watching from afar.
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