Jakarta: A pair of powerful bombs exploded at two luxury hotels in an upscale Jakarta business district on Friday, killing nine and wounding at least 50, officials said.
Indonesia's security minister has confirmed the toll.
The minister says a New Zealander was among those killed. Thirteen other foreigners were among injured in the blasts at the Ritz-Carlton and Marriott hotels.
The blasts at the neighboring Ritz-Carlton and Marriott hotels blew out windows and scattered debris and glass across the street.
Earlier, Dr Cahyonod at the Jakarta Hospital said six people were killed. At another hospital, the Metropolitan Medical Center, a list of 29 names was posted of people it said were also wounded.
Alex Asmasubrata, who was jogging by the hotels, said he first heard a loud explosion at the Marriott. Five minutes later, a bomb followed at the Ritz.
The Marriott hotel was attacked in 2003, when 12 were killed.
Southeast Asian terror network Jemaah Islamiyah was blamed in that blast, but there has been a massive crackdown by anti-terror officials, and it has been more than three years since a major terrorist attack in Indonesia and the network.
Blasts from the past
There were bombings almost every year in Indonesia from 1999 to 2005, leaving about 280 people dead.
Terror group Jemaah Islamiyah was blamed for the Marriott Hotel blast in Jakarta in 2003 that killed 12 people.
In 2004, a bomb explosion outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta killed at nine people.
Perhaps the worst was the 2002 attack on the island of Bali that killed 202 people, 88 of them Australians.
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