NEWSFLASH: Bomb Outside Oz Jakarta Embassy

Thursday, 9 September 2004, 4:30 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

Reports from Jakarta say a bomb has gone off outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta. The bomb apparently disrupted a procession going on there at the time. ABC is reporting two deaths at this time.

NEWS LINKS:
The Age
ABC News Australia
Bloomberg

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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.

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