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Homemade bomb kills
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CNN
September 6,
2002 Posted: 7:34 AM HKT (2334 GMT)
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Homemade bomb kills three in
Ambon
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) --A
homemade bomb has exploded in a sports stadium in the
violence-ravaged town of Ambon in eastern Indonesia, killing three
girls and injuring eight other people, police and witnesses said.
Most of the victims in the blast at
Ambon's main Merdeka Stadium Thursday were believed to be senior
and junior high school students who were training for a coming
regional sports event, Lt. Col. Noviantoro, chief of the local
police, told Associated Press.
"All the three dead victims
were young girls aged between 14 and 17," Noviantoro said.
He said the blast was caused by a
homemade bomb.
Witnesses said a woman was taken by
police for interrogation, which Noviantoro would neither confirm
nor deny.
Ambon, about 2,600 kilometers
(1,600 miles) east of Jakarta, is the provincial capital of Maluku,
where three years of fighting between Christians and Muslims has
killed 9,000 people.
Sporadic violence has continued
despite a February peace accord. In July, a bomb blast ripped
through a crowded market, injuring 53 people.
Maluku, an archipelago, was known
as the Spice Islands during Dutch colonial times.
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