God damn senseless violence
A FIVE-YEAR-OLD Australian girl was critically injured in yesterday's Australian Embassy attack in Jakarta.
Elizabeth Manuela Bambina Musu was going to the embassy with her Indonesian mother Maria when the blast occurred at 10.15am (1315 AEST) yesterday.
Her mother was one of the nine people killed in the blast. A further 180 people were injured.
Elizabeth's injuries were so bad it was initially thought she was dead, ABC radio said.
But once it was realised she was still alive, she was given emergency treatment on the scene.
She is now in a coma at a local hospital.
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said in Jakarta overnight that Elizabeth and her mother were going to the embassy to pick up a new Australian passport when the blast occurred.
"Her condition is critical but stable," Mr Downer said.
"She became an Australian citizen on September 1 and I understand was going to the Australian Embassy to collect her first passport."
"She is the only Australian to have been significantly injured and her situation, as I said, is critical."
The child's Australian father, believed to be from NSW, was flying to Jakarta from Australia.
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