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Suspect's wife taken for questioning over Jakarta bomb plot
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Taken: Police escort the wife (in black burqa) of a terrorist suspect from her house in Laweyang, Surakarta, on Sunday, for questioning. (JP/Ganug Nugroho Adi)
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he National Police’s Densus 88 counterterrorism squad has taken into custody the wife of a terrorist suspect linked to a plot to bomb a major target in Jakarta for questioning after searching the suspect’s house in Surakarta, Central Java, for more evidence.
The police spent about two hours on Sunday afternoon searching the house of one of two men arrested on Saturday in Jakarta.
The wife was seen carrying her 6-month-old baby into a police car. There was no official statement from on-duty police officers after they concluded the search.
Densus 88 on Saturday arrested two men and a woman in Bekasi, West Java, for allegedly plotting a bomb attack at a major target, believed to be the State Palace, in Jakarta.
The two men were arrested at about 3:40 p.m. on the Kalimalang overpass, while a 27-year-old woman was arrested 10 minutes later in a rented house in the Bintara Jaya subdistrict.
In the Bintara Jaya house, the police found high explosives weighing about 3 kilograms packed into a pressure cooker.
The fourth suspect, another man, was arrested in Karanganyar, Central Java, at about 6:30 p.m.
Neighbors of the first suspect and his wife in Surakarta said they had got married in 2015 and had since lived in their current house, which belongs to the woman's parents.
“They seemed fine. The wife joins regular residents meeting, while the husband is a bit of an introvert,” said Muhammad Amin, one of the couple’s neighbors. (hwa)
