Jakarta Update: Suicide Bombers Were 'Posing As Hotel Guests'
Yesterday's attacks on the JW Marriott Jakarta and the Ritz-Carlton Jakarta have left eight people dead and 150 injured. According to current reports, "suicide bombers posing as hotel guests" are thought to have caused the explosions. Additionally, authorities found and defused a third bomb up in a guestroom on the eighteenth floor of the JW Marriott. The alleged bombers were supposedly guests at the Marriott.
Times Online describes the terrifying scene:
Bleeding victims, including foreign businessmen who had been in breakfast meetings, crawled and staggered out of the JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotels in Jakarta’s Mega Kuningan business district after the explosions struck two minutes apart shortly before 8am.
Footage from a security camera at the Ritz-Carlton showed a suited man wearing a baseball cap, and carrying a backpack and a wheeled suitcase, entering the hotel’s first floor restaurant just before the explosion, which killed two people.
Marriott released a statement about the incidents today, saying that the hotels did sustain damages but it "does not appear to be structural" — and that "injured guests and hotel employees were taken to the hospital for treatment" and relocated to different hotels. Meanwhile, we've gotta give major props to Marriott; they did an excellent job of keeping everyone updated via Twitter.
Ritz-Carlton CEO Simon Cooper seemed to be tweeting the same things as the story developed, as did the Ritz-Carlton PR Twitter.
The photo above comes via a guest at the Ritz-Carlton, who tweeted his experience as it was happening.
[Photo via BreakingTweets]
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