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POSO - A bomb went off in front of a busy market in Poso in central Indonesia's Sulawesi province on Saturday morning, killing five people and injuring at least seven, local police said. The bomb exploded at about 9:20 a.m. Sulawesi time, next to a mini bus parked about 50 meters outside the Poso police station, said Abdi Darma, head of the town police. The explosion damaged at least two vehicles parked near the minivan, he said.
"The bomb exploded when the market is full of people shopping'' to celebrate next week's Eid al-Fitr festival, Darma said. The police has tightened security around the town's borders, he said. Sporadic violence persists in Sulawesi, even after a government-brokered truce in December 2001 ended three years of ethnic conflict between feuding Christians and Muslims. As many as 2,000 people died and 100,000 were forced to flee their homes during the conflict.
Indonesia, a secular country, has the world's largest Muslim population, with 85 percent of the nation's 235 million people followers of Islam. Muslims around the world will celebrate on Monday the Eid al-Fitr, end of the monthlong fasting period of Ramadan.
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