- Automatonophobia = fear of ventriloquist dummies
- Bibliophobia = fear of books
- Ecclesiophobia = fear of church
- Aulophobia = fear of flutes
- Selenophobia = fear of the moon
- Venustraphobia = fear of beautiful women
- Logizomechanophobia = fear of computers
Sister said younger nephew, Okta, is better. He wants to play now but still does not have good appettite - yet. Her new worries now is that the 1st child, Dodo, might catch the measles as he wants to be around Okta all the time!
BREAKING NEWS:
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JAKARTA : At least seven people were killed and nearly 100 injured in a car bomb explosion outside the Australian embassy in central Jakarta Thursday, hospital officials said.Doctors at Jakarta's Metropolitan Medical Centre, close to the scene of the explosion, said four dead people had been received at their facility and at least 99 injured.
Mardiono, a medic at the morgue of Jakarta's Ciptomangunkusumo general hospital, said three unidentified bodies had also been sent there from the blast scene.The blast at around 10:30 am (0330 GMT) prompted the immediate evacuation of the embassy and caused a sharp drop on the Jakarta stock market.ElShinta radio station quoted a witness saying a police truck and a taxi in front of the embassy had been blown apart and the high steel fence surrounding the building in the Kuningan business and residential district was damaged.
A guard's post in front of the embassy was also destroyed.An AFP reporter at the scene saw burning debris in the road outside the embassy, roughly 100 metres (109 years) from the perimeter wall, as emergency services tried to extinguish flames and tend to the injured.A nearby multi-storey commerical block was left windowless by the blast.The Australian foreign ministry in Canberra said the explosion shattered windows in the embassy compound and damaged cars, but there were no immediate reports of injuries among embassy staff.
"The explosion shattered windows in the area including some at the Australian embassy and cars have been damaged," she told AFP."The embassy has been evacuated in line with established procedures," she said, adding that it was too early to determine whether the embassy had been targeted by the blast, she said.The Australian government of Prime Minister John Howard has warned Australians to avoid travel to Indonesia due to the threat of terrorist attacks by Islamic groups linked to the Al-Qaeda network.Both Australia and the United States last week raised new warnings urging their citizens and officials to avoid Western hotels in Jakarta following fresh concerns they could be hit by terrorists.
The warnings reminded citizens to defer non-essential travel to the Southeast Asian archipelago.Australia, which joined the United States in invading Iraq last year, has also been on alert for possible strikes ahead of national elections to be held on October 9.The Al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah group has been blamed for several high profile bomb attacks in Indonesia including the August 2003 attack on Jakarta's Marriott Hotel and the October 2002 bombings on the resort island of Bali.The nightclub bombings in Bali killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.- AFP
