Jakarta attacks: Explosions and gunfire rock capital

Source: Aljazeera

At least 17 people have been killed in a series of bomb and gun attacks in central Jakarta, Indonesia's police told Al Jazeera, as gunfire rang out of the capital's downtown area.
An unknown number of people were injured in the security operations at the Sarinah shopping complex on Thamrin Street in the centre of Jakarta on Thursday.
At least five gunmen were among the dead and another five policemen and seven civilians were killed, police told Al Jazeera.

All six blasts occurred about 50 metres apart in the central business district, which also houses a United Nations office.
A Dutch national, who was working for the UN, was severely injured, Dutch media reported. Earlier reports said the man had died in the attacks.
Tweets from the account of Jeremy Douglas, regional representative of the UN office on Drugs and Crime for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, described a bomb and "serious" exchanges of gunfire on the street outside his office.
Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen, reporting from Jakarta, said a police post was destroyed in a grenade blast and that sporadic gunfire was heard in the downtown area of the capital.

Even as Stelody Global News blogs this report gun shots are reportedly sounding from down town Jakarta.