Suspect in Indonesia mosque bombing was inspired by past mass killings, police say

Workers work inside a mosque in Jakarta and repairing the walls, where four homemade bombs exploded during Friday prayers. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

JAKARTA (Reuters): The student suspected of detonating blasts that injured dozens of people at a mosque in Indonesia's capital last week was motivated by vengeance and inspired by attacks carried out by white supremacists and neo-Nazis, police said on Tuesday.

The blasts, which hit a mosque at a school complex in the capital Jakarta's Kelapa Gading area during Friday prayers, left 96 people injured.