Explosions Rock Jakarta

News has it that at least seven people have been killed in a series of coordinated bomb and gun attacks in central Jakarta, Indonesia as blasts rang out of the capital's downtown area this morning.

We gathered that unconfirmed number of people were injured in the security operations at the Sarinah shopping complex on Thamrin Street in Jakarta's central district. Police said the attack has ended and that security forces were in control of the area.

The recent police reports said five gunmen were killed and that another five policemen and seven civilians were also dead. Police later revised the toll to a total of seven, including four attackers.

All six blasts occurred about 50 metres apart in the central business district, which also houses a United Nations office.

The recent, tweets from the account of Jeremy Douglas, regional representative of the UN office on Drugs and Crime for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, described a bomb and "serious" exchanges of gunfire on the street outside his office. A police post was also destroyed in a grenade blast.