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Densus 88 searches houses of suspected terrorists in Surakarta, Klaten
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Tight security -- Counterterrorism personnel stand on guard during a search near a grocery store belonging to terrorist suspect Nur Solihin, in Cemani, Sukoharjo, Central Java, on Dec.13. (JP/Ganug Nugroho Adi)
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ersonnel from the National Police’s Densus 88 counterterrorism squad seized several items of evidence during their search of the houses of three suspected terrorists in Surakarta and Klaten, both in Central Java, on Thursday and Friday.
The three suspects, namely Sunarto, 26, Imam Syafii, 33, and Sumarno, 44, allegedly committed Molotov cocktail attacks on an Alfamart minimart in Serengan, Surakarta, and Candi Resto, a restaurant in Solo Baru, at the end of November and the beginning of December, respectively.
Densus 88 personnel arrested the three terror suspects on Wednesday evening before they searched Sunarto’s and Syafii’s houses in Banyuanyar, Surakarta, and Sumarno’s residence in Pedan, Klaten.
The police seized two masks, several books, compact disks and documents during their one-hour search of Syafii’s house at around 8:30 a.m. local time Friday.
Syafii is suspected of having participated in the Molotov cocktail attack on the Alfamart, together with Khafid Fathoni, 22, a resident of Ngawi, East Java, whom the police arrested on Dec.11. They were allegedly involved in a terrorism network led by Nur Solihin, the leader of a small terror cell arrested over an alleged bomb attack plan centered on Bekasi, West Java.
The police later searched Sunarto’s house, located only around 1 km from Syafii’s house, at 9:30. During the search they confiscated several flash disks and one motorcycle allegedly used by Sunarto together with Khafid in the attack on Candi Resto.
“They didn’t bring a search warrant,” said Anis Priyo Ansori, a spokesperson for Syafii’s family.
Previously on Thursday afternoon, the police searched Sumarno’s house. His wife Sri Mulyani claimed she did not know that her husband had been arrested by Densus 88. “We learned of it from journalists,” she said on Friday. (ebf)
