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Oct 24, 2018
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Three families who shocked Indonesia by blowing themselves up while attacking or planning to attack targets in Surabaya in May believed that the world would end in 2018 so they had to carry out suicide bombings to enter heaven, according to a new report by the Jakarta-based Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict.

On May 13, successive explosions erupt…

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