Makassar: A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a packed Roman Catholic cathedral on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island during a Palm Sunday Mass, wounding at least nine people, police said.
The church’s security guards suspected two motorists who wanted to enter the church.
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One of them detonated his explosives and died near the gate after being confronted by guards.
The attack caused no casualties among churchgoers.
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Police officials said at least one bomber died and four guards and five civilians were wounded.
Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, has been battling militants since bombings on the resort island of Bali in 2002 killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.
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Attacks aimed at foreigners have been largely replaced in recent years by smaller, less deadly strikes targeting the government, police and anti-terrorism forces and people militants consider as infidels.
AP
