The family of Fajaruddin, an alleged terrorist killed in Bima, West Nusa Tenggara, has said police officers killed him as he was sleeping, rather than in a shoot-out, as claimed by police.

Fajaruddin's mother Nurseha told tempo.co that when police counterterrorism unit Densus 88 came to her house on Monday morning, she was holding her three-year-old baby, while her stroke-stricken husband Darwis was sitting near Fajar.

The officers told her to look away.

"My son was shot in his sleep. I saw it," she said, adding that she had heard six to seven gunshots.

As her youngest child was crying, she asked permission to the officers to enter the house to fetch milk and diapers, but was not permitted.

"Even when they took his corpse away, I was not allowed to enter. There was no shootout, no weapons in my house," Nurseha said.

Fajar, who also went by the name Faris, had previously been away from Bima for four years, Nurseha recalled.

Densus 88 officers conducted a raid in Fajar's house on Monday over allegations that the second of five children was associated with the East Indonesia Mujahidin (MIT) terrorist group led by terror fugitive Santoso aka Abu Wardah.

Police claimed that Fajar was killed after he shot at officers.

Officers also arrested another alleged terrorist named Iman in the raid on Monday. The raid was part of the National Police's extensive raids against alleged terrorists in the wake of terrorist attacks in Jakarta last month that left four civilians dead and more than 20 injured.

Meanwhile, Bima Mayor Qurais Abidin urged the people of the city to remain calm in the face of a string of raids conducted in the area.

National Police chief Gen. Badrodin Haiti said on Monday that Fajar and Iman were suspected of involvement in several attacks in Poso, Central Sulawesi, as well as the assassination of a police officer in Bima. (rin)(+)

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