JAKARTA: A car bomb exploded outside the Australian Embassy here yesterday, killing at least eight people and wounding more than 130, in an attack police blamed on al-Qaeda-linked militants.
The blast, which came days ahead of Indonesia's presidential election and exactly a month before Australia's general election, blew a large hole in the embassy's security fence and gate and left a deep crater in the road outside.
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