Police arrest more bank robber terror suspects in Medan

Police have arrested two more suspects in their investigation into a brazen bank heist in Medan, North Sumatra, which they believe was connected to terrorists, a police hospital doctor said Tuesday.

Dr. Samsiah Nasution from Bhayangkara Police Hospital in Medan said Tuesday the suspects had been treated at the hospital before being taken to the National Police Headquarters in Jakarta,

“One suspect was shot in the thigh and another one was grazed by a bullet,” Samsiah said Tuesday as quoted by kompas.com.

He said the two suspects only received minor treatment to stem their bleeding.

Separately, North Sumatra Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Baharuddin Djafar said he had not yet received reports of the new arrest.

Officers from the elite National Police antiterror unit Detachment 88 had shot dead three suspects and arrested 15 alleged to have links to al-Qaeda, Jamaah Islamiyah (JI) and JI’s Indonesian affiliate Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT), which was led by Abu Bakar Ba’asyir until his arrest in August in connection with allegations of funding a terrorist training camp in Aceh.

Police said that the suspects were members of a terror cell tasked with raising money to buy weapons.