JAKARTA (AFP) - The death toll from a bombing in the Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi has risen to six, a hospital worker said.
Saturday's bomb, which destroyed a public minibus near a market in the town of Poso, killed two people outright, hospital staff said.
Another three people died as they were being transported to a hospital in Parigi near the provincial capital Palu, said hospital nursing assistant Fecky Leo.
And a man died Saturday night as he was being treated for a severely damaged right leg and other injuries, Leo told AFP.
One of the wounded had been sent to Palu for treatment and was in intensive care at Undata General Hospital, hospital staff said.
The motive for the blast was not known.
Poso and other parts of Central Sulawesi province have seen a series of attacks on Christians in the past year. Ten were killed in an attack in October 2003 and around 12 others have died in various attacks since then.
A report this year by the International Crisis Group blamed many of the Christian deaths in Poso on Mujahidin KOMPAK, an outfit with loose affiliations to the Jemaah Islamiyah regional extremist group.
Authorities say Jemaah Islamiyah was behind various deadly attacks in Indonesia including the October 2002 Bali bombings, last year's Jakarta Marriott hotel suicide attack and a deadly blast outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta in September.
Fighting between Christians and Muslims in Central Sulawesi began in 2000 and left more than 1,000 people dead before the government brokered a peace deal in December 2001. Sporadic violence has continued despite the peace deal.
11/14/2004 - 08:34 GMT - AFP