Jakarta Globe, October 03, 2010
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| Indonesian police escorting n terror suspect after his arrest in northern Sumatra. North Sumatra Police said on Sunday that they had killed six men believed to be linked to a group suspected of killing a police officer in a spectacular bank robbery in Medan city in August to raise funds for terrorist attacks. (AFP Photo) |
Dolok Sagala, Indonesia. Indonesian police shot dead six suspected Islamist militants and arrested four others in a raid on their hideout on Sumatra island, police said Sunday.
Four suspects were killed and a policeman injured in a gunbattle on Saturday on an oil-palm plantation in Dolok Sagala village in North Sumatra province, provincial police chief Insp. Gen. Oegroseno said.
Two more were killed on Sunday, he said in an update to reporters.
“The [sixth] suspect was shot dead after he tried to throw a hand grenade at the police. The grenade then exploded near him,” he added.
Earlier, he said the suspects had put up a fight during the raid and police had “fired a warning shot but they continued to resist.”
Three suspects were arrested Saturday night and one surrendered to residents Sunday, who then handed him over to the police.
Police are hunting several other suspects.
The suspects are believed to be linked to a group suspected of killing a police officer in a spectacular bank robbery in Medan city in August to raise funds for terrorist attacks, he said.
They were also involved in an attack on a police station near Medan in which three police officers were killed, Oegroseno said.
Indonesian anti-terror police last month shot dead three suspects and arrested 15 others in a series of raids in which militants used women and children as human shields.
Muslim-majority Indonesia is struggling to deal with the threat of homegrown Islamist militants who oppose the country’s secular, democratic system and want to create a caliphate across much of Southeast Asia.
Agence France-Presse
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