Several blasts went off in the center of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, in an apparent terrorist attack involving suicide bombers. Eyewitnesses describe casualties, chaotic scenes and exchanges of gunfire with police.
At least seven people have so far been confirmed killed in the attack, police said. According to Al Jazeera, a Dutch national working for UN was among the dead.
The Jakarta police said on their Twitter account that the explosions went off in front of the Sarinah shopping mall and Starbucks . Police say attackers arrived on motorcycles and threw grenades.
It is not clear what group was behind the assault, which President Joko Widodo called an "act of terror".
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