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Four police officers stand near two coffins prepared for the dead bodies of Santoso and Muchtar at the Bhayangkara Hospital in Palu, Central Sulawesi on July 9. (Antara Foto/Fiqman Sunandar)
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he wife of terrorist leader Santoso, Suwarni, went to the Bhayangkara Hospital in Palu, Central Sulawesi on Tuesday night to examine the body of a man killed during a shootout a day earlier to see if it belonged to her husband.
Suwarni was heard to burst into tears minutes after she entered the hospital mortuary. She was accompanied by two of her relatives and under a tight security guard. The woman, wearing a black chador, gave no statements but directly entered a vehicle after examining her husband’s corpse.
Operation Tinombala task force commander Sr. Comr. Leo Bona Lubis said Suwarni had confirmed the corpse was her husband Santoso. “Yes, the woman has confirmed that it is the body of her husband.”
The leader of the East Indonesia Mujahidin (MIT) Santoso and his subordinate Muchtar were shot dead in Poso, Central Sulawesi on Monday by members of the Tinombala unit Alpha 29.
Family members of Muchtar were scheduled to confirm whether the second corpse was his later on Wednesday.
