Several wounded in suspected suicide bombing outside Indonesian church

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JAKARTA — A suspected suicide bomber detonated a bomb outside a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Makassar on Sunday (March 28), wounding nine people on the first day of the Easter Holy Week, police and a witness said.

 

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