From:AFP, July 12, 2011
One killed: Students attend class at an Indonesian Islamic school. Pupils at a boarding school linked to jailed cleric Abu Bakar Bashir blocked police from investigating a deadly explosion.
A MAN was killed when a bomb exploded in an Indonesian Islamic school which police say has links to Abu Bakar Bashir.
The homemade bomb exploded in an Islamic boarding school in eastern Indonesia.
"An improvised bomb exploded in one of the school rooms on Monday at 1530," local police spokesman Sudjoko province told reporters, adding that the school's treasurer Firdaus was killed in the blast.
After the blast in West Nusa Tenggara province, hundreds of students armed with sharp weapons blocked the school entrance, stopping police and soldiers entering to investigate the blast.
"They don't want our presence there," Sudjoko said.
National police spokesman Anton Bachrul Alam said that 10 people were arrested outside the school premises on Monday.
Local media reported earlier that one of the school's leaders was arrested last year for funding a militant training camp in Aceh province of Sumatra island, backed by the firebrand cleric Bashir.
One of the students late last month slashed the neck of a police officer at the security post with a knife, killing him, according to one report.
Indonesia has been rocked by a series of attacks by the regional terror network Jemaah Islamiyah in recent years, including the 2002 Bali bombings which killed 202 people including 88 Australians.
