AKIPRESS.COM - One police officer and at least four militants were killed after gunmen carried out a series of apparently coordinated gun and bomb attacks in the heart of the Indonesian capital of Jakarta.

There have so far been no claims of responsibility, but one analyst likened the timed attacks to the Paris massacre where ISIS struck several locations at the same time.

The blasts took place Thursday morning on Thamrin steet, an entertainment and shopping district with various Western chains. It was the the first major attack in Jakarta since the 2009 simultaneous attacks on the J.W. Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotels, which killed seven.

Indonesian police shot dead four suspected gunmen, and were working to secure the area, CNN Indonesia reported.