A blast outside the police headquarters in the Indonesian city of Medan in North Sumatra was a suspected suicide bombing, a police spokesman said on Wednesday.
Tatan Dirsan Atmaja, a spokesman for the North Sumatra police, said some police officers had been wounded in the blast that occurred at 8:40am (0140 GMT) and that the suspected suicide bomber had died in the attack.
According to Prasetyo, head of the Police Public Information Bureau, the attack was possibly a suicide bombing, but police are still investigating the incident.
He said the blast happened in a car park near an area where people were queueing for clearance letters from police.
“An investigation is being carried out at the site of the incident by Detachment 88 and the North Sumatra Regional Police, and we are waiting for the results,”Prasetyo said.
The motive for Wednesday’s attack was not immediately clear, but Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, has suffered a resurgence in homegrown militancy in recent years, with some attacks aimed at the police.
In recent years, Islamic fighters, including the outlawed Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), a homegrown Indonesian armed group linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( ISIS). have staged a series of attacks against the police.
