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Police arrest 5 Bima students in Makassar
The West and South Sulawesi Police confirmed on Tuesday that five students from Bima, West Nusa Tenggara, had been arrested in Makassar on Sunday night as suspected members of the Sontoso-led terrorist group in Poso, Central Sulawesi
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he West and South Sulawesi Police confirmed on Tuesday that five students from Bima, West Nusa Tenggara, had been arrested in Makassar on Sunday night as suspected members of the Sontoso-led terrorist group in Poso, Central Sulawesi.
Chief of the West and South Sulawesi Police Insp. Gen. Anton Setiadji said in Makassar that the five were arrested by the police's Densus 88 counterterrorism squad after the fatal shooting of two suspected terrorist during a raid on the terrorist group's hiding place in Poso on Sunday.
'The five were arrested by Densus 88. We backed up the arrest,' he was quoted as saying by tribunnews.com.
He added that the arrest was made after a tip off from AQ, a member of Sontoso-led terrorist group who was arrested in Poso on Friday. (rms)
