Police Head to Site of Church Shooting
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Hundreds of police reinforcements flew to Indonesia’s Sulawesi island after gunmen opened fire on an Easter church service over the weekend, wounding seven people.
The attack stoked fears of a return to open fighting between Muslims and Christians that erupted in 1999, killing about 1,000 people.
More than 300 members of the Mobile Brigade paramilitary police unit were due to arrive in the region. No one has been arrested in Saturday’s shooting in the town of Poso in central Sulawesi.
Police have declined to speculate on the identities of the attackers, who wore black uniforms and were armed with automatic weapons.
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