Hotel guests, some in bath robes, stumble to safety

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Hotel guests, some dressed in white hotel bath robes, scrambled through the twisted furniture and broken glass and out into the smoke and tropical early morning heat, trying to make sense of what had just happened. A bomb attack at the JW Marriott hotel in Jakarta's main business district at 7.47 a.m. and a few minutes later at the nearby Ritz-Carlton killed eight people and wounded more than 60 in the worst such attack to hit Indonesia since 2005.

"It was very loud, it was like thunder, it was rather continuous, and then followed by the second explosion," said Vidi Tanza, who helped get the injured into taxis and patrol cars to get them to hospital. "We heard it from our office. There was not much panic. Then they realised the explosion was a bomb, so they scrambled outside."