JAKARTA—A suspected suicide bomber blew themselves up outside a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Makassar on Palm Sunday, wounding nine people on the first day of the Easter Holy Week, police and a witness said. The congregation had been inside the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral on the island of Sulawesi at the time of the explosion and the lone attacker was the only fatality, police said. Father Wilhemus Tulak, a priest at the church, told Indonesian media that a parking attendant was burned when they successfully stopped the suicide bomber from entering the church grounds on a motorbike. The suspect was accompanied by another accomplice. Security camera footage showed a blast that blew flame, smoke, and debris into the middle of the road. Mayor of Makassar Mohammad Ramadhan Pomanto told local media that body parts were found as far as 200 meters away. He said those killed were …
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