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Police arrest another man with suspected links to E. Jakarta bombings

News Desk (The Jakarta Post)
Jakarta
Sun, May 28, 2017 Published on May. 28, 2017 Published on 2017-05-28T15:25:05+07:00

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Residents stand next to dismembered human body parts at the scene where two bombers launched an attack on the  Kampung Melayu bus station in East Jakarta on May 25. Residents stand next to dismembered human body parts at the scene where two bombers launched an attack on the Kampung Melayu bus station in East Jakarta on May 25. (AFP/Adek Berry)

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he National Police's counterterrorism squad Densus 88 have arrested a man in Cibubur, East Jakarta, on suspicion that he is linked to the bombing at Kampung Melayu bus station in East Jakarta on Wednesday night, which killed three police officers and injured dozen others. 

The man, only identified by the initial R, although he may also go by an alias beginning with the letter B, was in contact with one of the suicide bombers, National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Setyo Wasisto said Sunday. 

"He [R or B] met with one of the suicide bombers [Ahmad Sukri] a day before the attack," Setyo said as quoted by tribunnews.com. 

He also handed something to Sukri, Setyo added, saying that police investigators were looking into what the man had given to Ahmad. 

The man is currently being detained at the National Police Mobile Brigade Detention Center in Kelapa Dua, Depok, West Java, for questioning. (dmr)

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