Food poisoning may be new modus for terrorists

Following a police investigation into an alleged food poisoning case in North Jakarta on the weekend, an expert warns that terrorists may be planning to poison police through the food served at police canteens.

“If this is true, food poisoning is a new modus [of terrorist attack] that needs to be monitored. This shows that terrorists really hate police and are trying to get revenge after their colleagues were shot dead in various police raids,” Indonesia Police Watch (IPW) coordinator Neta S Pane said Monday as quoted by tribunnews.com.

Police needed to be more professional in their handling of terrorism and more cautious at all times, he said.

Neta added that recklessness had resulted in the serious injury of a police officer in the recent Jakarta mail bomb case.