again, we need to confirm that with police we ll confirm that as soon as we can. and kathy, you moved away from the area where the skyline building is. let me ask you what the situation is in other parts of the capital. there had been reports of explosions in other locations. what can you tell us? again, those reports have not been confirmed. there s been a lot of speculations and rumors going onka social media, people calling each other, understand biably because they re very worried about the situation now. there s been a lot of speculation but none of those have been confirmed. alleged explosions happened in other parts of the city. we know for sure there s one attack that happened in the center of down, which is one of the main thoroughfares in jakarta.
which is one of the things that we ll be talking to the government about is how to deal with the foreign fighters phenomenon here in indonesia but also regionally. we have a similar problem in southern philippines and malaysia. please let me know if this is something you can touch on or not. i m just looking at some reports coming from the region. this one coming from the fairfax news report from australia the morning herald the age. up to six attackers are believed stoob hiding in the skyline building. that s the site of the starbucks cafe. is that something you can talk more to and also there is another report saying police are saying that this attack is linked to isis, the islamic state. is there anything there which you can confirm for us? i can tell you i ve heard the same thing. but i can t really say much more detail than that. we ll be talking to the police later today to find out what s really going on. but the point at this moment,
probably the safest place and not to be on the street at moment. christian, thank you for being with us. thank you for describing the scene and what you have heard over the last couple of hours. one of many people now who are in a lock down situation in downtown jakarta. a very busy area. right in the central downtown where there s luxury hotels. the u.n. headquarters also on lockdown. we also have this word coming to us from the u.s. embassy keling citizens to shelter in place, not to leave. similar advice being put out to the australian citizens in jakarta as well. i imagine a lot of other embassies are putting out a similar advice to their nationals in indonesia s capital right now. we are closely watching the situation involving the skyline building. police have entered a short time ago in pursuit of a gunman,
starbucks, and then the attack on the police outpost happened afterwards, the gunfight, and then one armed suspect fleeing the scene from what police have been saying so far, four suspects were killed. their bodies were brought to the police hospital. for now, the situation here has calmed down a bit, but we know that police forces are still in the area trying to secure it. people are not allowed to go inside the building or near the starbucks cafe. they re able to move around that building. people are milling about, trying to see what s happened here. but rosemary, there is a city on edge now. after this attack, people didn t expect this to happen. totally understand that. but police did move very quickly. do clarify for us, as well, you say they re trying to secure the area. does that mean there s still a
not confirm if the civilians were innocent bystanders or were actually attackers who lobbed grenades at the police station earlier today. he staid there were motor bikes as well. although earlier witness accounts said the men had walked towards the police station and then threw the grenades at the policemen. killing one of them there. there was a an exchange of gunfire. and there was at least one armed suspect who escaped from the scene and fled into the skyline building, which was just across the police station. it was an intersection, a very busy intersection. we have office buildings around the commercial establishments here. everything is on lockdown now. there are reports that people are still in the offices in the buildings around the area, and we re seeing as of this moment a police operation that s still going upon john? kathy, the death toll you just gaye us four which you