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No one has claimed Bandung terror suspect's body: Police

The dead body of Yayat Cahdiyat, the suspect in a recent terror attack in Bandung, West Java, remains at Kramat Jati Police Hospital in East Jakarta as no relative has claimed the body, National Police spokesperson Sr. Com. Martinus Sitompul said on Wednesday.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie (The Jakarta Post)
Jakarta
Wed, March 8, 2017

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No one has claimed Bandung terror suspect's body: Police Police officers patrol around the Arjuna subdistrict office in Bandung on Feb. 27. The police shot dead Yaya Cahdiyat, a terrorist suspect who set off a "cooking-pot" bomb at the Pandawa Park before fleeing to the office. (JP/Arya Dipa)

The dead body of Yayat Cahdiyat, the suspect in a recent terror attack in Bandung, West Java, remains at Kramat Jati Police Hospital in East Jakarta as no relative has claimed the body, National Police spokesperson Sr. Com. Martinus Sitompul said on Wednesday.

The autopsy of Yayat, who allegedly left a cooking pot containing explosives at a public park in Bandung which then exploded on Feb. 27, has been completed and the post mortem data is ready to be handed over to Yayat's family, Martinus said.

"In accordance with our procedures, we will keep looking for his relatives. If within a certain period of time no one turns up, we will bury him," he told reporters. 

The police's Densus 88 antiterror squad has searched and tried to contact Yayat's relatives so that his dead body can be handed over as soon as possible, he said.

(Read also: Deradicalization efforts failing: Police)

Yayat, also known as Abu Salam, was a former convict who had been sentenced to three years in prison for robbing a gas station in Cikampek, West Java, to fund a paramilitary training camp in Aceh in 2010. He was arrested and convicted in 2012.

After he allegedly set off his "cooking pot" bomb, Yayat ran into a subdistrict office and attempted to burn it down. The police shot him and he died en route to the hospital. (bbs)

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