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Indonesian Police Kill Suspected Bomber on West Java Island

by VOA News

   A suspected terrorist has been shot and killed by police in Indonesia
   after an improvised bomb exploded near a government building in the
   city of Bandung.

   West Java police chief Anton Charliyan says no one was injured when a
   pressure cooker-rigged device exploded Monday in a nearby vacant lot.

   Charliyan says the suspect ran into the building after the explosion
   and started a fire inside before he was eventually shot and killed
   during a gunbattle with police.

   Indonesia has been the target of numerous terrorist attacks by Islamic
   militants for years, including the 2002 bombing attack on a Bali island
   nightclub that left 202 people dead.