received from the indonesian police spokesman do we have any more details as to whether those numbers i collude the attackers? were the attackers killed and what took place today. the policeman said he could not confirm that. he said we were still unable to identify the civilian victims. so he would not confirm that. and he also said that it was still unclear who was responsible for this attack. certainly no one has claimed responsibility for it. although there s a lot of speculation here from social media now, people who were claiming to know of the attack, but again that s all confirmed right now. all we can say for sure is what the police told us yerler, that four people died in the i a tack. kathy, just explain to us exactly where you are right now. not far from the skyline building in relation to the starbucks, which was hit in up with of these explosions.
holed up in buildings nearby. and we are now looking at some of that footage from the police as police rushed out there to make sure everyone was safe, make sure they had identified all the attackers. we re now told by police that four of the suspects were killed in that exchange of gunfire. our producer outside says the scene is much calmer now. have you received the all clear from police or are you still hunk eered down? we re waiting for clearance to leave the building. we re about to go into a security briefing to find out what happened and the status of the u.n. staff, and then we re going to hopefully get a clearance to leave late this afternoon. the area is pure secure at this point. it appears secure. you re telling us it seems calm and quiet outside. as we think about who would have been behind this, we know the government has been aiming for the most wanted terror leader.
link. the country itself certainly has its own home grown groups to worry about. germany dougla jeremy douglask you for walking us through a day people will remember for a while. stay safe. we appreciate you speaking with us. we ll contact you in the hours ahead if necessary. thank you. all right. we do want to go back to kathy. she is there in the center of jakarta and joins us live. kathy, let s just go over what we know at this point. we understood that this was at an end. i am seeing some tweets coming from followers who live in jakarta suggesting that there has been more gunfire in the last couple of minutes. can you clarify if authorities are telling you this has come to an end? reporter: well, we have a colleague down there at the skyline building still watching
have dyied down, the tension an the security was loosening around the building. they took off the police lines and then they were able to go in. clearly, there was a development that happened at that point. and kathy, you re there on the street. describe to us where you are exactly, and what people are saying, how people in jakarta are responding to this, at least now, it seems everything has died down. it looks like we ve lost kathy. we ll try to reestablish contact with her. of course, she was on the line, and then we had her live. there are difficulties with live television always, but kathy joining us there live from jakarta, and bringing us up to date. she was talking about the numbers there. we have been reporting to you, and it has been confirmed through cnn indonesia that the four suspects have been killed by police. now we understand, we were
policemen entering the building. i also heard at least two low grade explosions on the street. i don t know what that means. we re also seeing some anti-bomb yurnts walking down the main road. we can t see much and it s not moving well, but from what i ve heard, they are in pursuit of an armed suspect who was said to have fled into the skyline building. i m quite familiar with this build, as you mentioned earlier, the cnn bureau was here for many years. there is an entrance, a private it s a public entrance that goes through the back of the building. and it goes through the hotel next door. it also exits into a street parallel to the main road. so, you know, it s possible that whoever goes through this entrance may have escaped through the street just beside