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TENTENA/JAKARTA (Reuters) - Twin bomb blasts that killed 22 people in a Christian town in eastern Indonesia bore the hallmarks of a regional militant group linked to al Qaeda, the vice president and a senior police official said on Sunday. Some 50 people were wounded in the blasts on Saturday which ripped through a busy market in the lakeside town of Tentena on the eastern island of Sulawesi, the worst bombings in Indonesia since the 2002 Bali attacks that killed 202 people. Tentena is part of an area where 2,000 people were killed in three years of Muslim-Christian fighting until...

Indonesian Christians Bury Their Dead After Market Bombing By Chris Brummitt Published: May 29, 2005 TENTENA, Indonesia (AP) - Tearful mourners on Sunday began burying the victims of twin bombings that killed at least 20 people in a crowded marketplace in a Christian-dominated town - the deadliest terror attacks in Indonesia since the 2002 Bali bombings that killed hundreds. Saturday's attacks came just days after Washington issued a fresh terror warning in Indonesia and closed its diplomatic offices across the nation. The blasts, in Christian-dominated Tentana on Sulawesi Island, were just 15 minutes apart. There has been no claim of...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's president has ordered police to find those behind two bomb blasts that killed 22 people in a Christian town, and said he would cut short an overseas trip if authorities could not handle the situation. Quoted by the official Antara news agency after arriving in Hanoi late on Saturday, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said he would not speculate on who carried out the attacks in Tentena. Tentena is part of an eastern region where three years of Muslim-Christian fighting killed 2,000 people until a peace deal was agreed in late 2001. Periodic unrest has flared since, but...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Two bombs exploded Saturday at a busy market in central Indonesia, killing at least 22 people and wounding 40 others in a volatile area marred by years of inter-religious fighting, Vice President Jusuf Kalla (search) said.

TENTENA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Two bombs ripped through a busy market in a Christian town in eastern Indonesia on Saturday, killing up to 21 people in an attack likely to raise fears sectarian bloodshed could again break out in the region. The explosions left a trail of blood and destruction in the lakeside town of Tentena, on the eastern island of Sulawesi, part of an area where three years of Muslim-Christian clashes killed 2,000 people until a peace deal was agreed in late 2001. Periodic unrest has flared since, but Saturday morning's attack was among the worst. Tensions rose after...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Two bombs exploded Saturday at a busy market in central Indonesia, killing at least 19 people and wounding 20 in a volatile region marred for years by religious fighting, a police official said. The twin blasts occurred in the morning in the Christian-dominated town of Tentena, said Police Maj. Riky Naldo, deputy chief of police in nearby Poso, the coastal town where fighting between Muslims and Christians has claimed hundreds of lives since 2000. He said two policemen were among the wounded. Police in January discovered 60 homemade bombs stashed in an abandoned house in Poso, about...