Surabaya, E Java (ANTARA News) - The death toll in suicide bomb attacks at three churches in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya on Sunday morning rose to 18 as of Monday, police said.

"In the first scene of bomb attacks at Santa Maria Tak Bercela Church in Ngagel, the number of people killed is seven, including two perpetrators," spokesman for the East Java Provincial Police Senior Commissioner Frans Barung Mangera said on Monday.

The number of people killed in the bomb attack at the Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) at Diponegoro Street is three, all of them perpetrators, he said.

"The three were a mother and her two children," he said.

Mangera said the number of people killed in the bomb attack at Pantekostal Church at Arjuno Street increased to eight from three. The eight dead victims comprised seven residents and one perpetrator.

Reported by Indra Setiawan/Willy Irawan
(T.SYS/C/S012/A014)

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