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Australian killed in blast NATIONAL police spokesman Zainury Lubis has confirmed the death toll for the Jakarta blast is 10 - including one Australian. One American and one Malaysian, as well as seven others, were killed in the blast. No identities or further details were released. Police were continuing to comb the wreckage for further victims. The US victim was among seven bodies at the state-run Cipto Mangunkusumo hospital morgue. An ambulance crew was seen unloading seven plastic bags containing body parts but the crew declined to comment. "It looks like they were all burned," said a morgue official, Oyon,...

<p>JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- An explosion at the Marriott hotel in central Jakarta has left at least 6 people injured.</p> <p>The blast occurred just before 1 p.m. (0600 GMT) on Tuesday, shattering scores of plate-glass windows at the front of the hotel.</p>

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- An explosion outside a Marriot Hotel in downtown Jakarta killed four people on Tuesday, radio reports said. It was not immediately clear whether the blast was caused by a bomb. However, since last year's terrorist bombings in Bali, which killed 202 people, authorities have warned that more attacks were likely. "I saw four badly burned bodies on the street," a reporter from Jakarta's El Shinta radio station said, adding that two cars nearby were on fire. Brig. Gen. Edward Aritonang, a police spokesman, said he had heard the report and that officers were on their...