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No other blasts besides on Thamrin, police say
An electronic screen above the Starbucks cafe where an attack took place displays the message "Pray for Jakarta" showing support for the city in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Jan
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An electronic screen above the Starbucks cafe where an attack took place displays the message "Pray for Jakarta" showing support for the city in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016. Attackers set off bombs and exchanged gunfire outside the cafe in Indonesia's capital in a brazen assault Thursday that police said "imitated" the recent Paris attacks. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
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span class="inline inline-center">An electronic screen above the Starbucks cafe where an attack took place displays the message "Pray for Jakarta" showing support for the city in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016. Attackers set off bombs and exchanged gunfire outside the cafe in Indonesia's capital in a brazen assault Thursday that police said "imitated" the recent Paris attacks. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
There was no blast in the Palmerah area of West Jakarta, despite rumors that claimed a bomb exploded there at the same time as the attacks on Jl. MH Thamrin in Central Jakarta.
West Jakarta Police chief Rudy Hariyanto said that there was no blasts nor gunfire in Palmerah.
"I have checked the location and none of that is true," he said, adding that there was no threat addressed to the Palmerah Police post.
Previously, there had been rumors that blasts took place in several areas in the capital and around it, such as in Palmerah and Alam Sutera in South Tangerang.
National Police chief spokesman Insp. Gen. Anton Charliyan confirmed that the blasts only happened in the Thamrin area and not in other parts of the city.
"We have checked all the reports and they are hoax news. It is not true there were bomb blasts in Palmerah or in Kuningan [South Jakarta]," he said.
At least seven people died, including five terrorists, in the blasts and gun attacks in the Thamrin area at around 10:50 p.m. The two civilian fatalities were a Canadian and an Indonesian. More than 19 people were injured in the incident, police said. (rin)
