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Family of Suicide Bombers — Including Children — Attack Police HQ

By Edmund DeMarche, Fox News

Authorities in Indonesia on Monday said that a family—including children— carried out a suicide attack on a police headquarters in the country’s second-largest city, a day after members of another family launched coordinated suicide bombings on three city churches that killed at least eight people.

A girl about eight years old was with two of the attackers on a motorcycle and survived being thrown by the blast at Surabaya’s police headquarters, Tito Karnavian, the national police chief, said.

The attack killed four perpetrators. Six civilians and four officers were wounded. The attacks have been aimed at the country’s Christian minority. The attack on the police station occurred just hours after police said the other family carried out the church bombings, which included girls aged nine and 12. In one of the attack, the children wore bombs around their waists, he said.

The attacks have raised concerns that previously beaten down militant networks in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation have been reinvigorated by the return of some of the estimated 1,100 Indonesians who went to fight with the Islamic State group in Syria.

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