Suspected ISIS-Inspired Suicide Bombers Attack Indonesian Churches, At Least 13 Dead, 40 Injured

Suspected ISIS-Inspired Suicide Bombers Attack Indonesian Churches, At Least 13 Dead, 40 Injured
A person injured from a blast at the Indonesian Christian Church is evacuated to a waiting ambulance in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia May 13, 2018. Antara Foto/Didik Suhartono/ via Reuters
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JAKARTA–AA family of six launched suicide attacks on Christians attending Sunday services at three churches in Indonesia’s second-largest city of Surabaya, killing at least 13 people and wounding 40, officials said.

Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, has seen a recent resurgence in homegrown militancy inspired in part by ISIS. Police said the family who carried out Sunday’s attacks were among 500 Islamic sympathizers who had returned from Syria.