Here’s an update:
BBC News ^ | July 16, 2009
At least four people have been killed in two separate explosions at luxury hotels in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, say reports.
The country’s Metro TV reported that one blast hit the Ritz-Carlton and the other, the Marriott Hotel. Television footage showed the facade of one of the hotels had been torn off by the blast.
The BBC’s Karishma Vaswani, outside the Marriott, said ambulances are present and security is extremely tight.
South Jakarta police Col Firman Bundi said the four who died were foreigners, reported AP. “There were explosions heard from two separate places, one the JW Marriott, the other in the Ritz Carlton,” he said.
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Thanks, LucyT. From the article at LucyT’s link:
“The explosions come two weeks after presidential elections in Indonesia.”
A little something to put things in perspective...
After a forest fire in Yellowstone National Park , forest rangers
Began their trek up a mountain to assess the inferno’s damage.
One ranger found a bird literally petrified in ashes, perched statuesquely on the ground at the base of a tree. Somewhat sickened by the eerie sight, he knocked over the bird with a stick.
When he gently struck it, three tiny chicks scurried from under their dead mother’s wings. The loving mother, keenly aware of impending disaster, had carried her offspring to the base of the tree and had gathered them under her wings, instinctively knowing that the toxic smoke would rise.
She could have flown to safety but had refused to abandon her babies. Then the blaze had arrived and the heat had scorched her small body, the mother had remained steadfast ..because she had
been willing to die, so those under the cover of her wings would live.
‘He will cover you with His feathers,
And under His wings you will find refuge.’
(Psalm 91:4)