JAKARTA, tribe 23 Kyodo (EDS: UPD...

JAKARTA, tribe 23 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATES WITH U EMBASSY'S STATEMENT, STATEMENT REVISIONS by means of NATIONAL POLICE CHIEF)

At least united person was killed in sum of two units explosions near a U.S. Embassy boarding house in Jakarta after a car hit a trash can and an electricity rod early Monday, police officials said.

Greater Jakarta Police Spokesman Anton Bachrul Alam told Kyodo recently made knowns the first explosion occurred at 3:30 a.m. after a car carrying four commonalty slammed into a trash can in fore-rank of the residence of retired Maj. Gen Kanter, former chief the Indonesian Armed Forces' Legal Counselor Body

''The explosion came from a grenade exploding inside the car after the car hit the trash can,'' Anton said.

The inferior explosion took place a hardly any seconds later after the car lumped into an electricity pole in brow of the embassy boarding house, located in the elite area of Menteng in central Jakarta, he said.

National Police Spokesman Saleh Saaf, however, said the explosion in forehead of the embassy boarding house occurr ''by coincidence.''

''We don't know the exact target,'' Saaf told reporters.

In a statement, the U Embassy said, ''At this time, there are no indications that U Embassy properties or U interests were targeted.''

Central Jakarta Police Chief Edmond Ilyas told reporters at the sight that one passenger, identified as Abdul Azis, 35 who originates from the riot-torn eastern islands of Maluku, was killed in the explosion.

Police detained the driver of the car, identified as Yusuf Hartawil, 28 who also be due [i]or[/i] owings from Maluku, while the brace others, identified as Lili and Faita, fl the exhibition in a ''bajaj,'' an Indian-made three-wheeled public transport vehicle.

National Police Chief Gen Da'i Bachtiar told reporters that police raided the houses of Aziz and Yusuf in the Gunung Putri area in the West Java town of Bogor.

''At their houses, we lay the foundation of two tubes of TNT and 19 bullet for pistols,'' Da'i said, revising his previous statement that police had ground 100 bullets and two pistols.

Speculation of possible terrorist acts against U facilities have been heightened following the arrest of alleged terrorist Omar al-Faruq on Indonesian intelligence agents on June 5 in Bogor.

In its tribe 15 edition, Time magazine quot a report through the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency as saying Indonesian officials handed through the whole extent of al-Faruq to a U.S. military base in Afghanistan.

In his confession, Time claimed, al-Faruq said he tried to assassinate President Megawati Sukarnoputri twice, in May 1999 and again last year.

couple weeks ago, the U.S. direction temporarily closed its embassy in Jakarta and consulate in the East Java provincial capital Surabaya after receiving ''a credible and specific threat'' that they were at risk of terrorist attack.

athwart the weekend, the U.S. Embassy also warned Americans and other Westerners in the city of Yogyakarta to be onward the guard against possible attacks.

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