Four terrorist suspects arrested in South Tangerang on Wednesday have links to Nur Solihin’s network in Bintara, Bekasi, where the police recently found a bomb in a cooking pan.
our terrorist suspects arrested in South Tangerang on Wednesday have links to Nur Solihin’s network in Bintara, Bekasi, where the police recently found a bomb in a cooking pan.
“We are still investigating their network but from preliminary information from [anti-terror squad] Detachment 88, those in South Tangerang are linked to those in Bekasi and Tasikmalaya,” the National Police spokesperson Brig. Gen. Rikwanto said as quoted by tribunnews.com on Wednesday.
Both Bekasi and Tasikmalaya are in West Java.
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Jakarta Police chief Insp. Gen. M. Iriawan said the arrests in Serong and Babakan in South Tangerang, Banten, were developments based on information from suspect Dian Yulia Novi, who allegedly made the cooking pan bomb.
Four terror suspects were arrested in two separate locations by Densus 88 on Wednesday morning, in a rented house on Jl. Raya Serpong and in Babakan, Setu district, respectively.
From the four, only one was caught alive.
The police said during the sweep in Setu, they found a handmade bomb with a relatively powerful explosion capacity. (evi)
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