"Looking outside ... people are yelling and screaming, they are all going: `They are all going to die,'" she told Seven Network television.
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin coming off them."
In September, the US Embassy in Jakarta closed for six days due to threats linked to al-Qaida. Other regional US embassies also closed. The Philippines disclosed that Washington feared attacks using truck bombs.
Last month, a grenade exploded in a car near a house belonging to the US Embassy in Jakarta, killing the man suspected of handling it.
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