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Grenade thrown at Aceh Party office
Two unidentified men threw a grenade at the Aceh Partyoffice in Lueng Bata district, Banda Aceh, on Tuesday night, injuring a9-year-old boy and damaging the officeâs door and shattering window panes
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wo unidentified men threw a grenade at the Aceh Partyoffice in Lueng Bata district, Banda Aceh, on Tuesday night, injuring a9-year-old boy and damaging the office's door and shattering window panes.
'We are working on identifying the perpetrators and motive behind the grenade-throwing,' Banda Aceh Police chief Sr. Comr. Moffan MK said at the scene.
Witnesses said the grenade, the explosion of which was heard 500 meters away, was thrown by two men on a motorcycle at 8:15 p.m.
The Aceh Party is a local party that was set up by former combatants of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) after the Helsinki peace agreement between GAM and Indonesia was signed in 2005.
