Jakarta badge arch Maj.-Gen. Tito Karnavian told a account appointment that the aboriginal advance -- a suicide bombing -- happened at a Starbucks, causing barter to run outside, breadth two gunmen opened fire, killing the Canadian and acid an Indonesian bystander.
At about the aforementioned time two added suicide bombers attacked a adjacent cartage badge booth, killing themselves and an Indonesian man.
Moments later, Karnavian said, a accumulation of policemen was attacked by two actual gunmen, application bootleg bombs. This led to a 15-minute gunfight, he said.
All 5 gunmen were dead and twenty humans were blood-soaked in the attacks, badge said.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Ottawa was alive with Indonesian authorities to affirm the letters of a Canadian dead in the attacks.
"The hearts of Canada and Canadians go out to the humans of Indonesia and all the families and victims of these abhorrent attacks," Trudeau said at an actualization in Kitchener, Ont.
"We're of advance traveling to be acknowledging the government in annihilation it needs from Canada through this difficult time."
The federal government adapted its biking advising for Jakarta in the after-effects of the attacks, advising Canadians to abide vigilant, chase the admonition of bounded authorities and abstain the city's city-limits area.
Islamic Accompaniment accumulation backers accept broadcast a affirmation of albatross on Twitter for advance and Indonesian badge said the attackers were affiliated with the Islamic Accompaniment group.
A Canadian man alive with the United Nations was in Jakarta for a affair on Thursday and witnessed the agitation triggered by the late-morning explosions.
Jeremy Douglas, of Port Perry, Ont., was in a car if he aboriginal got a alarm from a UN aegis administrator advising him there had been a bang actual abutting to the appointment he was branch to.
In minutes, he had accustomed at the architecture and was accepting out of his car if a additional access occurred.
"I hadn't even bankrupt the car aperture and you heard the explosion. It was appropriate beyond the street, aslant to the office, about 100 metres," the 44-year-old told The Canadian Press. "It was a big ample explosion, absolutely could apprehend it, you could feel it."
At first, it was cryptic what had occurred and abashing abounded, Douglas said, but consecutive baby blasts beatific humans scurrying for cover.
Douglas and his colleagues rushed into the UN appointment architecture to a defended attic breadth they could see badge and added aegis armament responding to the attack.
While inside, he said he heard the complete of battery as assailants and badge faced off.
"They started a shootout in the street," he said. "We were witnessing the appropriate aggregation across-the-board ... some armoured cadre carrier confused up the street. It was appealing crazy."
The absolute adventure lasted about bisected an hour, Douglas said, and took abode in a active allotment of Jakarta's city-limits that is busy with abounding offices, hotels and embassies.
"There were a lot of humans in the Starbucks," he said, acquainted that UN agents had been afflicted at the cafe. "This is appropriate in the centre of it, it's appealing amazing that it was so few killed"
The advance came afterwards several warnings in contempo weeks from badge that Islamic militants were planning something big.
Authorities aswell said they begin a large, undetonated bomb and 5 abate accessories in a architecture abreast the Starbucks bistro afterwards the attack.
"So we anticipate ... their plan was to advance humans and chase it up with a beyond access if added humans gathered," said Maj. Gen. Anton Charliyan, the agent of Indonesia's civic police. "But acknowledge God it didn't happen."
Five hours afterwards the attack, badge declared the breadth secure.
"We accept there are no added attackers about Sarinah. We accept taken control," Jakarta badge agent Col. Muhammad Iqbal said.
Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said in a account on civic TV that the bearings was beneath ascendancy and alleged on humans to abide calm.
"The state, nation and humans should not be abashed of, and lose to, such alarm acts," he said.
Thursday's attacks prompted a aegis lockdown in axial Jakarta and added checks all over the awash city-limits of 10 million.
It was the aboriginal above advance in Indonesia's basic back the 2009 bombings of two hotels that dead seven humans and afflicted added than 50.
Before that, bombings at nightclubs on the resort island of Bali in 2002 dead 202 people, mostly foreigners.
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