Indonesian National Police spokesperson Maj. Gen. Anton Bahrul Alam holds up the photo of suspected suicide bomber who blew himself at a mosque inside a police compound in Cirebon, West Java on Friday, during a press conference at the main police hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, April 16, 2011. The bombing was the first attack on a mosque since extremists started targeting the predominantly Muslim country a decade ago. -- PHOTO: AP
JAKARTA - INDONESIA police are attempting to identify the suicide bomber who blew himself up in a mosque as police were praying, wounding 30 people.
Police spokesman Maj. Gen. Anton Bahrul Alam says forensic doctors have been examining the DNA of the bomber, whose mangled body was found at the scene of the blast at a town in West Java.
He says the bomber's head is still intact.
A picture of his face was released Saturday.
Alam said the bomber was wearing five layers of pants to hide the bomb that was strapped to his body.
Friday's attack was the first on a mosque in Indonesia since extremists started targeting the predominantly Muslim country a decade ago.
-- AP
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