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RI CONDEMNS DEADLY BOMBINGS IN INDIA, TURKEY
Jakarta, July 29 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian government strongly condemns the weekend bombings which claimed 45 lives in the Indian city of Ahmedabad, and 17 in Istambul, Turekey, Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Kristianrto Soeryo Legowo said here on Monday.
"The deadly bombings in India and Turkey indicate that terrorist attacks can happen anywhere and anytime," Kristianrto Legowo said, adding that the international community should continue to cooperate in dealing with the criminal activity.
He said the Indonesian government hoped that the perpetrators of the bombings could be arrested soon and processed in accordance with the existing legal rules.
"The Indonesian government offers its deepest sympathy to the governments of India and Turkey, and the families of the victims," the spokesman said.
Asked if there were Indonesians among the bombing fatalities, Kristiarto said the ministry was coordinating with the Indonesian embassies in New Delhi and in Ankara to find out.
"But according to preliminary information there are no Indonesian nationals among the fatalities," he said.
Meanwhile, AFP reported that the weekend bombings killed 45 people in Ahmedabad, a city rocked by deadly Hindu-Muslim riots six years ago.
AFP quoted Indian television channels as saying that a little-known Islamist group calling itself "Indian Mujahedeen" had claimed responsibility for the attacks.
And according to a Reuters report, shocked and angry residents in a conservative Istanbul neighborhood blamed separatist Kurdish guerrillas on Monday for two bomb explosions which killed 17people and injured more than 150 others.
It said a loud blast on Sunday evening lured people onto a pedestrian street of a busy shopping and eating area in Gungoren, a stronghold of the ruling AK Party on the Europeanside of Turkey's biggest city.
Minutes later a second bigger bomb in a nearby trash can exploded, ripping through the crowd, no one had claimed responsibility for the bomb attacks, the deadliest in Turkey since 2003.
"The deadly bombings in India and Turkey indicate that terrorist attacks can happen anywhere and anytime," Kristianrto Legowo said, adding that the international community should continue to cooperate in dealing with the criminal activity.
He said the Indonesian government hoped that the perpetrators of the bombings could be arrested soon and processed in accordance with the existing legal rules.
"The Indonesian government offers its deepest sympathy to the governments of India and Turkey, and the families of the victims," the spokesman said.
Asked if there were Indonesians among the bombing fatalities, Kristiarto said the ministry was coordinating with the Indonesian embassies in New Delhi and in Ankara to find out.
"But according to preliminary information there are no Indonesian nationals among the fatalities," he said.
Meanwhile, AFP reported that the weekend bombings killed 45 people in Ahmedabad, a city rocked by deadly Hindu-Muslim riots six years ago.
AFP quoted Indian television channels as saying that a little-known Islamist group calling itself "Indian Mujahedeen" had claimed responsibility for the attacks.
And according to a Reuters report, shocked and angry residents in a conservative Istanbul neighborhood blamed separatist Kurdish guerrillas on Monday for two bomb explosions which killed 17people and injured more than 150 others.
It said a loud blast on Sunday evening lured people onto a pedestrian street of a busy shopping and eating area in Gungoren, a stronghold of the ruling AK Party on the Europeanside of Turkey's biggest city.
Minutes later a second bigger bomb in a nearby trash can exploded, ripping through the crowd, no one had claimed responsibility for the bomb attacks, the deadliest in Turkey since 2003.
