Indonesian family launches suicide attacks on Christians
Police blame returning Islamic State sympathisers after a child as young as nine helps carry out church attacks
Surabaya, Indonesia — A family of six launched suicide attacks on Christians attending Sunday services at three churches in Indonesia’s second-largest city of Surabaya, killing at least 13 people and wounding 40, officials said. Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, has experienced a recent resurgence in homegrown militancy. Police said the family who carried out Sunday’s attacks were among 500 Islamic State sympathisers who had returned from Syria. "The husband drove the car … that contained explosives and rammed it into the gate in front of that church," East Java police spokesman Frans Barung Mangera said. The wife and two daughters were involved in an attack on a second church, and at the third church "two other children rode the motorbike and had the bomb across their laps", Mangera said. The daughters were aged 12 and 9 while the other two, thought to be the man’s sons, were 18 and 16, police said. Police blamed the bombings on the Islamic State-inspired grou...
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