Death toll rises to 11 in Jakarta hotel blast

The death toll from a hotel bombing in Indonesia has risen to 11 with the death of a taxi driver injured in the blast.

The death toll from a hotel bombing in Indonesia has risen to 11 with the death of a taxi driver injured in the blast.

The driver had been waiting outside the hotel when the bomb went off on Tuesday, said Adi, a spokesman at Jakarta's Cipto Mangunkusumo hospital.

Meanwhile, police said the suspected suicide bomber had stashed 110lb of explosives at his home before the attack in Jakarta.

Police said that Asmar Latin Sani - the alleged bomber whose severed head was found in the wreckage at the Marriott Hotel - had kept a cache of explosives at his house in the town of Bengkulu, about 155 miles from Jakarta.

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Indonesian authorities believe that the al Qaida-linked South-east Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah may have been responsible for the hotel attack.

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