Indonesian police arrest 3 accused of planning attacks

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Publish Date: 17:41 - 07 May 2018
TEHRAN, May 7 - Indonesia's counter-terrorism squad has arrested three extremists accused of plotting bomb attacks against police using high-explosive materials, an official said Monday.

Indonesian police arrest 3 accused of planning attacksTEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) –  The suspects, including a 17-year-old student, were arrested Friday in West Java's Bogor district where they had planned an attack against a police brigade headquarters and a suicide bombing at a police station, National Police spokesman Setyo Wasisto said, AP reported.

He said the suspects, identified as Anang Rachman, Muhammad Mulyadi and Abid Faqihuddin, also planned to hack police to death at a nearby traffic post.

"We have seized highly explosive materials" from them, Wasisto said.

He said police are questioning the men at a police detention center in Depok, just outside the capital, Jakarta, to determine whether they had links to extremist networks in Indonesia affiliated with Daesh terrorist group.

 

 

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