22 pipe bombs exploded in Tuesday's blast: Police<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The National Police Forensics Laboratory
\ndeclared on Thursday that 22 pipe bombs, not three, had exploded
\nin an empty room of a two-story boardinghouse in Pancoran, South
\nJakarta.<\/p>\n
The blasts on Tuesday morning injured five people, damaged at
\nleast four cars and four houses. No fatalities were reported.<\/p>\n
The laboratory's deputy chief, Sr. Comr. Dudon Setia Putra,
\nsaid that aside from the seven active bombs found in and around
\nthe crime scene, police had also found 22 caps of pipes.<\/p>\n
\"The 22 caps, and the condition they were found in, clearly
\nindicate that there were 22 pipe bombs,\" he told The Jakarta Post
\non Thursday.<\/p>\n
Local residents said that they had heard three clear, loud
\nbangs, which does not necessarily mean that each explosion was
\nfrom one bomb. A series of bombs could have exploded at one time,
\ncausing a single bang, he said.<\/p>\n
The bombs were cased in steel cylinders measuring
\napproximately 10 centimeters long by five centimeters in
\ndiameter.<\/p>\n
The bottom of the cylinders were capped with steel caps, with
\nred-colored fuses at the top. Each pipe bomb weighed about 600
\ngrams.<\/p>\n
In total, Dudon said there were 29 pipe bombs, seven of which
\nhad not exploded as they had been thrown by the force of the
\nblasts into rubble close to the crime scene.<\/p>\n
\"We still have no clue as to what caused the 22 bombs to
\nexplode. There were just no detonators found at the crime scene.
\nThe components of the bombs also indicate that there was no way
\nthe bombs could have exploded on their own,\" Dudon said.<\/p>\n
The bombs all contained TNT (trinitrotoluene), potassium
\nchlorate and sulfur.<\/p>\n
City Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Anton Bachrul Alam said on
\nThursday that by early Thursday morning police had detained two
\nmen, who shared the same name as the main suspect, Edi Susilo,
\nwho matched the physical description given by witnesses in the
\ncase.<\/p>\n
\"We have shown the two men to the witnesses... neither of them
\nare the Edi Susilo we are looking for,\" Anton said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Separately, City Police sent two teams of detectives and
\nintelligence officers on Wednesday to Sumatra and Kalimantan, in
\nsearch of a man who identified himself as Edi Susilo.<\/p>\n
Tuesday's blasts occurred reportedly in \"Edi's\" empty room,
\nlocated on the second floor of the boardinghouse.(ylt)<\/p>",
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