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Dozens of people have been injured in an explosion during Friday prayers at a mosque inside a high school complex in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta.<\/p>\n
Fifty-four people were admitted to hospital, the city’s police chief Asep Edi Suheri told a news conference, with the injuries ranging from minor to serious and including burns.<\/p>\n
The suspect is a 17-year-old student who is currently in surgery, officials told reporters.<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Metropolitan Police continues to investigate the suspect’s background and the possible motive behind the incident, which occurred at around 12:15 local time (05:15 GMT) in Kelapa Gading, a district in North Jakarta.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
A bomb disposal team has been deployed to the state-run high school complex to collect evidence and ensure there are no other explosive devices.<\/p>\n
Authorities said three people had suffered serious injuries and 17 others came away with minor injuries. Others have been treated and discharged, local media reports.<\/p>\n
A pupil at the school alleged to Indonesia’s government-owned news agency Antara that a homemade bomb had been brought in by a student who had often been bullied by other students.<\/p>\n
Other pupils told Indonesian news outlets that the suspect was a “loner” who often made drawings depicting violence, and who had been found lying on the ground following the explosion.<\/p>\n
A cook at the school described seeing white smoke coming from the mosque and broken windows after the “massive” blast.<\/p>\n
“Our hearts were beating fast, we couldn’t breathe,” she told the Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n
A high-ranking Jakarta Metropolitan Police officer confirmed the presence of two objects resembling firearms at the scene.<\/p>\n
Images from Antara suggest one of the objects appeared to be a submachine gun and another looked like a pistol.<\/p>\n
The submachine gun-type object appears to be inscribed on its barrel with: “14 words. For Agartha.”<\/p>\n
On its body, it says: “Brenton Tarrant. Welcome to Hell.”<\/p>\n
Brenton Tarrant is the perpetrator of a 2019 mass shooting at a mosque and Islamic centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, that killed 51 and injured dozens of others.<\/p>\n
A minister who visited the scene later on Friday sought to dispel suggestions that weapons were present at the site, telling CNN Indonesia what had been pictured “turned out to be a toy gun, not a real gun”.<\/p>\n
Lodewijk Freidrich Paulus also called on the public not to presume the explosion was a “terrorist act” as investigators were still combing over the scene.<\/p>\n
Another object found at the site was a dark green belt for storing gun cartridges.<\/p>\n
Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n