JAKARTA: A shuddering explosion was followed by a giant plume of smoke and then panic as the air around the Australian embassy filled with shards of flying glass.
As people ran, dragging wounded friends and colleagues behind them, the wreckage lay burning in a street strewn with twisted metal in front of the mangled fortified barrier surrounding the embassy in central Jakarta.
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