Agency.A pressure cooker bomb exploded in the courtyard of a government building in Bandung city of Indonesia on Monday. There were no reports of any casualties so far from the explosion which occurred around 9:00 a.m.(0200 GMT) in the West of Java city. Police claim that the attacker had been shot and seriously wounded.
Indonesian police said that a man came on a motorbike at the government building and placed a pressure cooker on the table in a corner of the courtyard. After the blast the man ran into the government building where he was later shot by police.
West Java police chief Anton Charliyan told reporters that the motive behind the attack was to free suspects that are in Densus(Indonesia’s anti-terrorism unit) custody. Anton said, “We think the attacker is from an old network, but we are still identifying who he is.”