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Suspect in National Police mosque stabbing used false address on ID card: Police
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Police officers cordon off the road in front of the Faletehan Mosque in the vicinity of the National Police headquarters in South Jakarta on Friday night following an attack launched by an unidentified man on two police officers. (JP/Ricky Yudhistira)
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ekasi Police chief Sr. Comr. Asep Adi Saputra said the now deceased man accused of stabbing two police officers at Falatehan Mosque in the National Police headquarters complex in South Jakarta on Friday evening was using a false address on his ID card, which was found at the crime scene.
Asep said that the police officers had checked the address on the ID card of a Mulyadi, 28, who was said to reside in Suka Resmi, South Cikarang, Bekasi.
The officers discovered that two residents named Mulyadi lived at that address, but Asep confirmed that neither of them was the suspect.
Two police officers, identified as Adj. Comr. Dede Suhatmi and First Brig. M. Syaiful Bakhtiar, were attacked by an assailant with a dagger after they completed their afternoon prayer at the mosque. The suspect stabbed the officers after shouting, “Thogut!” Thogut is an Arabic word for those who worship anything other than God.
Other police officers reportedly gunned down the perpetrator when he attempted to flee the scene.
The wounded officers were taken to the National Police hospital in Kramat Jati in East Jakarta after being treated at Central Pertamina Hospital near the crime scene. (ecn/dmr)
