Jakarta attack linked to Islamic State

Seven people are dead after attackers detonated suicide bombs and fired shots outside a Starbucks cafe in Jakarta in an assault that police said “imitated” the Paris terror attacks and was linked to the Islamic State group.

All five attackers and two bystanders – a Canadian and an Indonesian – died in the mid-morning explosions and gunfire that were watched by office workers from high-rise buildings on Thamrin Street in the Indonesian capital, not far from the presidential palace and the US Embassy.