Railway explosion: An explosion took place at 6:55 p.m. on Monday

Railway explosion: An explosion took place at 6:55 p.m. on Monday near Tanjung Rasa village at kilometer 86 of the Cikampek-Cirebon railway line in West Java. No fatalities were reported as the track was clear when the blast took place, and soon after the explosion railway officials stopped all trains from proceeding along the track. Around one hour later a piece of steel bar, between four and five meters in length and the thickness of a man's arm, was found placed on the railway track between Bandung and Cikampek, also in West Java. Akhmad Sujadi, spokesman for the Bandung branch of state railway company PT KAI, assumed that both incidents were attempts at sabotage. "Fortunately, we noticed the steel bar before any trains could come along," Akhmad said. --JP