Bomb maker dies in boarding school blast

JAKARTA (AP):

A MAN reportedly trying to show students how to make explosives was killed by a homemade bomb inside an Islamic boarding school in Indonesia, the police reported yesterday.

School officials and students have prevented police from entering the building since Monday's explosion, local police spokesman Lt Col Sukarman Husen said.

But they discovered the body of the suspected bomb maker, a 30-year-old man identified only as Firdaus, on a bus yesterday he said.

Eleven people have been taken in for questioning, Husen said, adding that police also confiscated a number of arrows and machetes.

Husen said the bombing victim was a treasurer at the school, but media reports alleged he was a former bomb trainee in the Philippine region of Mindanao.