Travellers escape injury in Indonesia airport blast

Police say a suspected bomb has gone off near an international airport in easternmost Indonesia but no one has been injured.

Police chief Major General Bagus Ekodanto says the explosion occurred late today in an empty field several miles from the Moses Kilangin airport in Papua province.

He refused to provide details, other than to say no one was hurt and that authorities suspected it was a bomb.

Members of an elite anti-terrorism unit have rushed to the scene to investigate.