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he Central Sulawesi Police will send the remains of 34-year-old suicide bomber Zainul Arifin to Jakarta this evening to be later buried in his hometown of Lamongan, East Java.

"We are about to hand over the remains to his family, who are waiting in Jakarta," Central Sulawesi Police spokesman Adj. Sr. Comr. Soemarno said onWednesday.

Previously, National Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Agus Rianto said the police had gathered enough data to verify similarities between the suicide bomber's DNA samples with those of  Zainul's mother,
Zumaroh.

"Zainul was associated with an Islamic boarding school in Lamongan, East Java. His wife, Fatimah, is a kindergarten teacher in Lamongan," Agus said onTuesday.

On June 3, Zainul drove into the Poso Police headquarters compound on a motorbike and detonated a bomb that was strapped to his body. He was the sole fatality in the incident.

Police learned about Zainul's terror activities from Umar, one of Santoso's accomplices who was arrested on June 8 in Poso.

"The victim [Zainul] was a 'groom', the group's code name for a suicide bomber. He coordinated with men identified only as A and Jun," Agus said, without elaborating further. (fan/dic)