Indonesia plane in Sumatra crash

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29 September 2011 Last updated at 10:37 GMT A plane carrying 18 people has crashed in a mountainous region of western Indonesia, government officials say.

The Casa C-212 aircraft sent an emergency signal while flying between North Sumatra and Aceh provinces, the transport ministry's Herry Bakti said.

He said it lost touch with air-traffic control and crashed at 1,100m (3,600ft), near the North Sumatran village of Bahorok.

Rescue teams were reportedly being hampered by rain and rough terrain.

"The plane crashed sometime between 7:28 (00:28 GMT) and 8:05 this morning around Bahorok mountain, which is about 36 nautical miles northwest of Medan," Mr Bakti, the ministry's aviation head, told AFP news agency.

The ministry said the craft's wreckage had been spotted during aerial surveillance and its body appeared to be largely intact.

There was no word on the fate of its 14 passengers, including four children, and four crew members.

Indonesia relies heavily on air transport and has a poor aviation safety record.

In May, 27 people died when a passenger plane crashed into the sea off the eastern province of West Papua.

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Suicide bomber attacks church in Indonesia

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A policeman stands guard as residents watch the site of an explosion in front of a church in Solo, Central Java September 25, 2011. An explosion caused by a suspected suicide bomber outside a church in the Indonesian city of Solo killed one person on Sunday, local media reported.

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JAKARTA | Sun Sep 25, 2011 4:41am EDT

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bomber attacked a church on Indonesia's Java island on Sunday, killing himself and one other person, a police officer and a government minister said.

Seventeen people were wounded in the explosion outside a Protestant church just after Sunday service in the city of Solo, local police spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Djihartono told Reuters.

"The one killed in front of the church is highly suspected as the suicide bomber. A total of 17 people are wounded and treated," he said.

The coordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs, Djoko Suyanto, said authorities wold examine closed circuit footage from the church to identify the suicide bomber.

Solo is the hometown of radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, considered the spiritual leaders behind the group that killed more than 200 people in Bali in 2002.

Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim Country, has been the scene of some major attacks by militants and radical groups over the past decade, but there have been few attacks recently.

Religious tensions still bubble near the surface in the officially secular nation. Religious conflicts flared up between Muslims and Christians in Maluku and Sulawesi, in the eastern part of the sprawling archipelago, following the overthrow of former President Suharto in 1998.

(Reporting by Christianto Nusatya; Editing by Sugita Katyal)

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