Explosion hits Jakarta airport
From CNN's Atika Shubert
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Police check out the site where the bomb went off at the airport.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- An explosion has ripped through the departure lounge at Jakarta's international airport, wounding 11 people, at least two of them seriously.
The low-explosive blast went off at 6:30 a.m. on Sunday (7:30 p.m. Saturday ET) near a passenger pick-up and drop-off area at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, police said.
Many of the injured were members of the same family, including a teenager who lost a leg.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Police believe the bombing was timed to cause a large number of casualties.
The bomb was placed under a row of seats near a Kentucky Fried Chicken food outlet.
It caused no significant damage to the surrounding area -- just a small crater where it went off -- leading police to believe it was a low-explosive bomb.
Indonesia has been the target for a number of terrorist bombings in recent years. A bombing attack on a Bali nightclub last October killed nearly 200 people.
Last week, a smaller-scale bomb detonated near a U.N. building in Jakarta. No one was injured.
