'IS fighters made Jakarta attack' claim

Islamic State carried out the

attacks in Jakarta earlier on Thursday, a news agency allied to

the group reported.

"Islamic State fighters carried out an armed attack this

morning targeting foreign nationals and the security forces

charged with protecting them in the Indonesian capital," Aamaaq

news agency said on its Telegram channel.

Militants launched a gun and bomb assault in the centre of

the Indonesian capital on Thursday, killing at least six people,

police said, in an attack on a country that Islamic State had

threatened to put in its "spotlight".