Blast outside Marriot hotel in Indonesia kills four, radio says

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JAKARTA, Indonesia, Aug. 4 ASSOCIATED PRESS

An explosion outside a Marriot Hotel in downtown Jakarta killed four people on Tuesday, radio reports said. ---

''I saw four badly burned bodies on the street,'' a reporter from Jakarta's El Shinta radio station said, adding that two cars nearby were on fire. --

Black smoke could be seen rising from the front of the hotel, located in a district where many foreign embassies are housed, an Associated Press reporter on the scene said.

The hotel's lobby plate glass windows were shattered, but it was not immediately clear how much damage had been caused to the structure.