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Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran and six other men are executed by firing squad, as Filipina Mary Jane Velosa wins a last-minute reprieve.
According to the AAP news agency, it could yet be some hours before the Indonesian attorney general makes a statement on the deaths:
Officials on Cilacap have yet to confirm the executions. Attorney general HM Prasetyo will leave Jakarta for Cilacap at 5.30am (08.30 AEST) where he is expected to make a statement, Cabinet secretary Andi Widjajanto said.
But Indonesian media has reported the eight were shot dead at 12.25am (0325 AEST) on the island of Nusakambangan on Wednesday.
The Philippines department of foreign affairs has confirmed to reporters that Mary Jane Veloso was not executed along with the other prisoners tonight.
The reprieve is said to be a temporary one, however.
Earlier today, the Philippines government sent an “extremely urgent” letter to the Indonesian attorney-general asking for a “suspension of execution of the death sentence”.
This followed news that Maria Kristina Sergio, the woman who allegedly recruited Veloso as a (she says unwitting) drugs courier, apparently handed herself into police in the Philippines.
Reports tonight say Veloso’s death sentence has been postponed so that she can act as a witness in any trial of Sergio.
