Investigators searching for clues sifted through charred debris at a decimated luxury hotel in Jakarta today after a suspected suicide bombing that killed at least 14 people and injured 148.

At least 13 people died today and 150 were injured when a suspected suicide bomber detonated a huge car bomb at the front of a luxury hotel in the Indonesian capital.

One news report has quoted police in Jakarta as saying two Americans, two Singaporeans, an Australian and a New Zealander were among those injured in a suicide blast at a luxury hotel.

A BOMB exploded near a fast-food restaurant at Jakarta’s main airport yesterday, wounding at least seven.

Eleven people were injured when a bomb ripped through a busy passenger terminal at Jakarta’s main airport today in an attack that police said was “meant to terrorise”.

The suspected spiritual head of an Islamic terror group implicated in the Bali bombings filed a lawsuit today against Indonesia’s police chief demanding he be set free and compensated for his time in custody.

One of two blasts in the Bali nightclub bombings came from a suicide bomber’s backpack – a sign Islamic militants in Indonesia are taking their cues from abroad, police say.

THE alleged mastermind of the Bali blasts that killed nearly 200 people has confessed to involvement in those and other bombings that have rocked Indonesia in the past two years, the country’s national police chief said yesterday.

The key suspect in the Bali nightclub attack that killed nearly 200 people, including many Britons, said today he was “delighted” that the bomb exploded.

Indonesian police said today that a man they are interrogating has confessed to planting a bomb in an attack on Bali nightclub that killed nearly 200 people last month.

A former member of the Indonesian Air Force has admitted building the bomb that levelled a Bali nightclub, it was reported today.

Indonesian officials were today questioning a security guard and another man about the deadly nightclub bombing in Bali and say traces of C-4 plastic explosives were found at the scene of the blast in which up to 33 Britons were believed killed.

A hand grenade that killed a man when it exploded prematurely in the Indonesian capital today was to have been thrown at a house belonging to the US Embassy, the national police chief said.