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.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0that the suspected suicide bomber had died in the attack.<\/p>\n
According to Prasetyo, head of the Police Public Information Bureau, the attack was possibly a suicide bombing, but police are still investigating the incident.<\/p>\n
He\u00a0 said the blast happened in a car park near an area where people were queueing for clearance letters from police.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
The motive for Wednesday’s attack was not immediately clear, but Indonesia, the world\u2019s most populous Muslim-majority country, has suffered a resurgence in homegrown militancy in recent years, with some attacks aimed at the police.<\/p>\n
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).\u00a0have staged a series of attacks against the police.<\/p>\n
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