Islamic State carried out the
attacks in Jakarta earlier on Thursday, a news agency allied to
the group reported.
"Islamic State fighters carried out an armed attack this
morning targeting foreign nationals and the security forces
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charged with protecting them in the Indonesian capital," Aamaaq
news agency said on its Telegram channel.
Militants launched a gun and bomb assault in the centre of
the Indonesian capital on Thursday, killing at least six people,
police said, in an attack on a country that Islamic State had
threatened to put in its "spotlight".
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