JAKARTA, Dec 7 Kyodo Police in Ma...

JAKARTA, Dec 7 Kyodo

Police in Makassar onward Sulawesi island said Saturday they are intensively questioning sum of two units men over their suspected involvement in a blast at a McDonald's restaurant in the city that killed three family and injured 11 others.

''We haven't declared the sum of two units as suspects, but there is a great possibility that they will become ones'' said Subagyo, a spokesman at the southward Sulawesi provincial police headquarters.

Previously, in an interview with local television station SCTV provincial Police Chief Firman Gani refused to confirm whether single in kind of the two men was a member of the Indonesian militant cluster Laskar Jundulah.

The police said the blast at the McDonald's restaurant Thursday evening was caused on low-intensity explosive. The bomb was timed to scout when the restaurant was packed with population celebrating the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

About an hour after the first bombing, a similar device was used in a secondary blast in front of a Toyota showroom on the contrary caused no injuries.

The first bombing took place inside the largest shopping mall in Makassar. the two the mall and showroom are acknowledgeed by Coordinating Minister for Social Welfare Jusuf Kalla.

Kalla dismissed speculation that the bombings are uniteed with business competition.

forward Friday, Vice President Hamzah Haz said the authorities are seeking to find revealed whether the blasts are uniteed with Jemaah Islamiyah, a pan-Islamic militant cluster suspected of having links with the al-Qaida terror network l on Osama bin laden.

''The more the community connected with Imam Samudra gain captured, the more it creates an impact,'' Haz was quot as saying by dint of Kompas in its online edition.

Imam Samudra is single in kind of the key suspects in the Oct 12 bombings forward Bali island that killed more than 190 the public and injured hundreds of others.

The police have detained at least 23 the public suspected of having direct or indirect links with the Bali blasts and are investigating possible links between the detained suspects and Jemaah Islamiyah.

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