We will NOT be defeated by acts of terror: Indonesia prez

January 14, 2016 11:43

Indonesian President Joko Widodo, widely known as Jokowi, has said, "We don't have to be afraid. We will not be defeated by acts of terror like this."

According to the official Jakarta police Twitter account one explosion went off in front of a shopping centre called the Sarinah mall, on a main city avenue.

Media said a police post outside the mall was blown up."I saw a police officer shot right in front of me," one witness told TV One.

A witness told the Associated Press that a group of at least three suicide bombers attacked the Starbucks, while two gunmen assaulted the police post.

Pic: People flee the area around the Sarinah mall where one explosion went off.

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