Jakarta (ANTARA News) - All Indonesian students at the International Islamic University (IIU) in Islamabad, Pakistan, where two suicide bomb blasts happened on Tuesday (Oct 20), are reported safe and to have been evacuated from their campus.
Muladi Mughni, an Indonesian student who is studying at the IIU, in an email message to Antara on Wednesday, said the evacuation of the Indonesian students was conducted several hours after the bomb blast.
For the time being, most of the Indonesian students were sheltered at the guesthouse of the Indonesian embassy, and the rest in the houses of the embassy`s home and local staff.
The two suicidal bombs which tore off part of the university building were reported to have killed two people and injured 23 others.
The first blast happened at 15:20 at the cafe of the women`s campus, but after two minutes the second blast hit the men`s Syariah and law faculty building which was 200 meters from the first blast.
Najib, an eyewitness from Indonesia who happened to pass the location, said he saw the blast damaging the women`s cafe. “At the time, I was riding on my motorcycle to I-Ten Markaz market for shopping. As I passed the location, I saw and heard a bomb blast and, immediately after, bodies lying on the cafe`s floor.”
The victims were immediately rushed to hospital by taxis and cars passing the location of the incident. Ambulance and police cars arrived there after ten minutes later.
The bomb attacks marked the first time extremists in Pakistan had targeted an academic establishment. So far they had only attacked police and military objects.
The IIU has at least 12,000 local and foreign students, 50 of whom are Indonesians. (*)
http://www.antara.co.id/en/news/1256132254/indonesian-students-evacuated-from-bombed-pakistani-university
IIU Females Cafetaria