
This is the 'terrorist toolkit' carried by an ISIS death squad who launched a series of suicide bomb and gun attacks that left seven dead in Jakarta.

Police found the terrifying arsenal of bombs, guns, ammunition and knives in a jihadist's rucksack after a three-hour gun battle in the Indonesian capital.

One of the fanatics had earlier been seen training his handgun on potential victims while stalking the streets as terrified onlookers ran for their lives.

The last stand played out near a Starbucks in a bustling shopping area after the team of seven militants traded fire with police and blew themselves up.

Shocking footage shows one of the suicide bombers erupting into a ball of fire after detonating his explosives outside the American coffee chain.

Another bomber exploded inside the cafe, wounding several inside. As people poured out, waiting gunmen opened fire on them, killing a Canadian man.

At the same time, two militants attacked a police traffic post nearby, using what witnesses described as homemade hand grenades, killing themselves and an Indonesian man.

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Toolkit of terror: Police found an arsenal of weapons including bombs, guns, ammunition and a knife in the rucksacks carried by ISIS fanatics who launched a series of co-ordinated attacks that left at least seven dead in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta

Police found the terrifying war chest in a jihadist's rucksack after a five-hour gunbattle on the streets of the Indonesian capital

Indonesian anti-terror policemen check two dead terrorists lying next to a victim after a bomb blast in front of a shopping mall in Jakarta

One of the fanatics who was later found dead trains his gun on potential victims while stalking down Thamrin Street in Jakarta

A civilian races past the camera as hundreds of people in Jakarta are seen fleeing as a man with a gun walks the street

Five attackers and two civilians were killed in the attack, while two of the militants were taken alive, police said.

Twenty people, including a Dutch man, were wounded.

Police finally declared the area near the Sarinah shopping mall secure five hours after the major downtown street – not far from the presidential palace and the U.S. Embassy – had turned into a battleground.

Islamic State officially claimed responsibility for the attacks.

In a statement posted online, it said: 'A group of soldiers of the caliphate in Indonesia targeted a gathering from the crusader alliance that fights the Islamic State in Jakarta through planting several explosive devices that went off as four of the soldiers attacked with light weapons and explosive belts.'

Jakarta's police chief earlier told reporters: 'ISIS is behind this attack definitely' and named an Indonesian militant called Bahrun Naim as the man responsible for plotting it. Police believe Naim is in the Syrian city of Raqqa.

Aamaaq news agency, which is allied to the terror group, said on its Telegram channel: '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.'

Police earlier said the attackers were linked to a terror cell that was foiled in the Indonesian city of Surakarta last December and the people behind the blasts were reportedly in communication with people in Syria.

The drama played out on the streets and on television screens this morning, with at least six explosions and a gunfight in a movie theatre.

'The Starbucks cafe windows are blown out. I see three dead people on the road.

'There has been a lull in the shooting but someone is on the roof of the building and police are aiming their guns at him,' Reuters photographer Darren Whiteside said as the attack unfolded.

Shocking images captured the moment a suicide bomber (next to white van in left image) detonates (right) in the Indonesian city of Jakarta

Police say they suspect a suicide bomber was responsible for at least one of the blasts

A view of the police station in front of a shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia, where a bomb blast took place on Thursday afternoon

Bodies can be seen on the road as a officer walks past a police post damaged in the explosion that rocked central Jakarta

A building that was destroyed in the blast with police saying the attackers were seen throwing grenades from motorcycles

The bomb squad expert checks two bodies after the blast, as civilians are seen looking on from behind police lines

A member of the Indonesian bomb squad inspects dead bodies sprawled on the ground after a bomb blast in front of a shopping mall

Locals inspect the site of a bomb blast (left) police cordon off the scene where two people lay dead near a police traffic post (right)

At least three police officers and three civilians were killed in blasts at a Starbucks cafe, the Sarinah shopping mall, and UN offices

A CITY GRIPPED BY TERROR: HOW THE ISIS ATTACK UNFOLDED The attack started at around 10.50am (4.50am) when a suicide bomber walked into a Starbucks and set off his explosives. He was the only person killed in the blast. The cafe is close to UN offices and a shopping centre on Thamrin Street, a major thoroughfare home to many luxury hotels, high-rise office buildings and embassies. As customers ran out, two gunmen outside opened fire, killing a Canadian man and wounding an Indonesian. A witness, Guruh Purwanto, said the gunmen then ran into a nearby theatre. At about the same time, two other suicide bombers attacked a traffic police booth nearby, killing themselves and an Indonesian man. Minutes later, the two gunmen attacked a group of policemen, sparking a gunbattle that ended with both attackers dead after they blew themselves up. Advertisement

Police responded in force within minutes. Black armoured cars screeched to a halt in front of the Starbucks and sniper teams were deployed around the neighbourhood as helicopters buzzed overhead.

Jakarta police chief Tito Karnavian said one man entered the Starbucks cafe and blew himself up, wounding several inside.

As people poured out of the cafe, two waiting gunmen opened fire on them.

At the same time, two militants attacked a police traffic post nearby, using what he described as hand grenade-like bombs.

Shocking footage shows two militants crouching down near a vehicle in a parking area before they are engulfed in flames from an explosion.

Separate video taken from a high-rise building nearby shows the scale of the blast – and captures the moment a second bomb is detonated in exactly the same place seconds later.

After the militants had been overcome, a body still lay on the street, a shoe nearby among the debris. The city centre's notoriously jammed roads were largely deserted.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo ordered security forces to hunt down the perpetrators and their network behind the attacks.

'I have received reports some time ago about the explosion in Thamrin street, Jakarta,' Mr Widodo said.

'We express condolences for those who became victims, but we all also condemn the attack that caused restlessness among the community.'

Highlighting the fear gripping the city, panic struck again just hours later when explosions were reported near the scene of the siege.

But police later said it was was believed to be a tyre bursting and not another bomb.

'There was the sound of an explosion, suspected to be from a truck tyre. But we don't want to underestimate anything. We want to keep things secure,' police spokesman Mohammad Iqbal told reporters.

US Secretary of State John Kerry condemned the attacks, saying the group was merely inviting 'its own destruction'.

'There is nothing in any act of terror that offers anything but death,' Kerry told journalists in London following a meeting with Saudi counterpart Adel al-Jubair.

A team of police officers and soldiers carry a wounded colleague away from the scene of the explosion

An injured police officer is carried away from the site of a bomb blast in front of a shopping mall in central Jakarta, Indonesia

A victim of the blasts being carted off by paramedics following the attack in central Jakarta

Police officers take cover behind a car during a gun battle with attackers near the site where an explosion went off in Jakarta

The windows of a Starbucks cafe in central Jakarta were blown out from the explosion

A forensic police officer places body bags over some of those killed in one of the bomb blasts that rocked Jakarta on Thursday

Victim: An Indonesian anti-terror policeman helps an injured foreigner after a bomb blast in front of a shopping mall in Jakarta

The US politician stressed that terror attacks would not 'intimidate nation-states from protecting their citizens and continuing to provide real opportunity, education, jobs, possibilities of a future' and only strengthened resolve to defeat the group.

ISIS 'have proven that they offer nothing, no alternative but their own destruction,' he said.

'If that's the choice they leave us, we're going to do what's necessary,' he added.

Indonesian Police shot dead four suspected militants who were part of the attack, it had earlier been reported.

'We are sterilising the building from basement to top,' Jakarta police spokesman Iqbal Kabid told reporters, explaining that a gunbattle between the attackers and police took place in a cinema that is in the same building as a Starbucks cafe that was attacked.

'We will declare the situation secure soon.'

Armed soldiers and armoured vehicles block the main street in downtown Jakarta as the city went into a heightened state of alert

Soldiers and armoured tanks have rolled into streets throughout Jakarta as the city following the deadly attacks

Indonesian armed military patrol the area on motorbikes near the Starbucks cafe after a series of blasts hit Jakarta this morning

A police officer armed with a rifle gestures to others during a fire-fight with suspected attackers in Indonesia

Indonesian soldiers were seen in armoured vehicles as law enforcement took control of the situation following the blast and shootings

A team of armed police officers arrived to enter a building where some of the suspected attackers were holed up after a number of explosions rocked the city

An armoured vehicle is parked outside the Starbucks cafe in Jakarta where a bomb blast went off on Thursday, as two officials keep watch

Indonesian police officers guard the blast site after a series of explosions by ISIS militants struck the Indonesian capital

Police officers and sniffer dogs were called in after the attacks as Indonesian forces fought to locate all the attackers

Moments before the President's comments, local news outlets reported at least three more attacks may have taken place across Jakarta.

Indonesian network TVOne reported there have also been blasts in Cikni, Silpi and Kuningan neighborhoods, near the Turkish and Pakistani embassies.

A witness told of seeing a Western man staggering from a Starbucks coffee shop - one of several buildings targeted by at least 14 terrorists - with what was described as 'a mangled hand'.

'But he was alive,' said 32-year-old Ruli Koestamam, according to reports.

Mr Koestamam, who had been in a meeting in a nearby building, said that after the Western man emerged from the coffee shop with his badly injured hand a Starbucks waiter ran out with blood coming from his ear.

'I asked if anyone was hurt inside and he said "Yes, one. Dead already".'

An Indonesian policeman stands guard in front of a blast site at the Indonesia capital Jakarta

A member of Indonesian police bomb squad is seen walking on the street at the site of one of the blasts that rocked Jakarta

The damage done to a Starbucks cafe in central Jakarta that was the target of a bombing attack on Thursday

Large pieces of glass from windows at the Starbucks cafe in Jakarta are seen on the street after a bombing in the city

An Australian journalist with Indonesia's Jakarta Globe told Daily Mail Australia it was 'really scary' as news of the attacks began to emerge, and reports suggested further blast and shootings were spreading to other parts of the city.

'It was at first really scary, with a lot of misinformation spread by some local media outlets about other suburbs under attack,' Ms Cook said.

'But as it's calmed down and more information has emerged it feels a much sadder mood. It seems like everyone is worried that Jakarta will return to how it was in the early 2000s.'

A Reuters photographer said the windows of the Starbucks cafe were blown out and he could see dead people on the road.

An Indonesian police officer points his gun as he secures the area following gunfire and bomb blasts in front of a shopping mall in Jakarta

'There has been a lull in the shooting but someone is on the roof of the building and police are aiming their guns at him,' the photographer said.

Photographs show bodies lying on the street and smoke rising up into the sky from the explosions.

Outside the Starbucks cafe, a bank security guard said he saw at least five attackers, including three suicide bombers, explode themselves.

Starbucks issued a statement reading: 'Initial reports are that an explosion took place close to our store in the Skyline building near one of these police posts.

'One customer sustained injuries and was treated on the scene; our partners (employees) are all confirmed to be safe.

'This store and all other Starbucks stores in Jakarta will remain closed, out of an abundance of caution, until further notice.'

Tri Seranto told The Associated Press he was out on the street when he saw the three men entering Starbucks and saw them blowing themselves up one-by-one.

He said the other two attackers, carrying handguns, entered a police post from where he heard gunfire.

Indonesian police take position behind a vehicle as they pursue suspects after a series of blasts

A police draws his weapon as chaos ensues across the Indonesian capital

A LONG HISTORY OF VIOLENT TERRORISM IN INDONESIA Terrorist bomb attacks on westerners by Islamic extremists in Indonesia is old news in the world's largest Muslim country and the island nation has always been a sitting duck for ISIS infiltration. Last December, Australia's Attorney General George Brandis warned that Islamic State was seeking to establish a 'distant caliphate' in Indonesia 'either directly or through surrogates'. This has long been the aim of the militant terrorist group, Jemaah Islamiyah, which perpetrated Australia's greatest terrorist attack in history, the 2002 Bali bombings which killed 202. Mr Brandis may also have been referring to one of Syria's ISIS recruits from Indonesia, prison inmate turned jihadi scholar Bahrun Naim . In a blog from Syria last year, Naim praised last year's Paris attacks and urged fellow Indonesians to examine the planning, organisation and the 'courage' of the Paris terrorists. Last December Australia and Indonesia held high level security talks just in Jakarta, just as Javanese police had arrested nine suspects ahead of a planned suicide attack on the capital. The arrested men were all former members of Jemaah Islamiyah, also known as JI and the attack was 'ISIS-related'. Mr Brandis said that ISIS had 'identified Indonesia as a location of its ambitions' and the location of its desired 'distant caliphate'. The arrival of ISIS in Indonesia would be the dream come true for JI's long held aim to establish a 'Daulah Islamiyah' or regional Islamic caliphate in Southeast Asia, and Australia's worst nightmare – bringing Islamic State right to our doorstep. Advertisement

The guard said he later saw one policeman dead and three seriously injured.

He said he was not injured in the explosions as he was a little distance away, but close enough to witness the attack at 10.30am local time.

The guard said he saw two gunmen ran away with police chasing them.

Indonesia has been on edge over recent weeks about the danger of Islamist militants and counter-terrorism police have launched a crackdown on people with suspected links to Islamic State.

However, the head of the Indonesian State Intelligence Agency told Reuters there were 'no indications' Islamic State militants are behind the attacks.

'This is definitely terrorism but there are no indications yet that it's ISIS related,' Mr Sutiyoso said.

In the wake of the blast, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop issued a statement urging people to avoid central Jakarta and 'exercise a high degree of caution' throughout the country.

'I have spoken to Indonesian Foreign Minister Marsudi and offered any support that Indonesia may need to respond to these attacks,' Ms Bishop said in a statement.

One blast went off in a Starbucks cafe and security forces were later seen entering the building

A plainclothes policeman prepares his handgun as authorities chase the suspects

'Australians should avoid the area of the Sarinah Mall on JL Thamrin in Central Jakarta, and follow the instructions of local authorities. The overall level of advice has not changed and we continue to advise Australians to exercise a high degree of caution in Indonesia.

'If you have any concerns for the welfare of family and friends in the region, you should attempt to directly contact them. If you are unable to contact them and still hold concerns for their welfare, you should call the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's 24 hour Consular Emergency Centre.'

It has also been reported state and federal police chiefs in Australia were being briefed on the situation on Thursday evening.

Victoria Police chief commissioner Graham Ashton tweeted: 'Getting briefings on the Jakarta attacks. Clearly significant events still in progress.'

The UN's south-east Asia regional representative Jeremy Douglas tweeted a bomb had gone off in front of his building.

He then heard a further five bomb blasts and gunfire in central Jakarta.

'A massive bomb went off in front of our new office as @collie_brown & I exit car. Chaos & we're going into lock-down,' Mr Douglas said.

'Apparent suicide bomber literally 100m from the office and my hotel.'

At least three police officers and three civilians were killed by the blasts that went off at a Starbucks cafe, the Sarinah shopping mall, and United Nations offices in central Jakarta

Three other bombs went off in the Cikni, Silpi and Kuningan neighbourhoods, near the Turkish and Pakistani embassies

According to the official Jakarta police Twitter account, one explosion went off in front of a shopping centre called the Sarinah mall, on a main city avenue

Plain clothes police officers aim their handguns outside a Starbucks cafe

Police hide behind vehicles during an exchange of gunfire with suspects hiding near a Starbucks cafe when another blast goes off