Police raid house of family that attacked Indonesia police station

Описание: (15 May 2018) Indonesian police on Tuesday could be seen preparing for a raid at the house of a family that allegedly launched an attack on the police headquarters in the country's second-largest city on Monday.
According to authorities, the family brought its seven-year-old daughter to the suicide bomb attack, a day after members of another family conducted coordinated suicide bombings on three city churches that killed 12 people.
National police chief Tito Karnavian said the girl, who was with two of the attackers on a motorcycle, survived being thrown by the blast at Surabaya's police headquarters.
The attack killed the four perpetrators.
Six civilians and four officers were wounded.
The attack came just hours after police said the family that carried out the church bombings included girls aged 8 and 12.
The flurry of bombings 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.
Experts have warned for several years that when those fighters return, they could pose a significant threat.
The IS group claimed responsibility for the church bombings in a statement carried by its Aamaq news agency.

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