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Police name three suspects in Kampung Melayu bombings
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Showing sympathy: President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo (left) and First Lady Iriana Joko Widodo (second left), accompanied by Vice President Jusuf Kalla (center) and Presidential Chief of Staff Teten Masduki (second right), visit a victim of the Kampung Melayu suicide bomb attacks at Dr. Sukanto Police Hospital in Kramat Jati, East Jakarta, on May 25. (Antara/Desca Lidya Natalia)
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he National Police have named three more suspects in the twin suicide bombing at the Kampung Melayu bus terminal in East Jakarta on May 24.
“On Wednesday, we arrested three people, namely Asep Sofyan alias Karpet, Waris Suyipno alias Mas Suyip, and Jajang Nikin Sodikin alias Abu Revan. We have named them suspects. They are currently being detained at the Depok Police headquarters,” National Police spokesperson Insp. Gen. Setyo Wasisto said at the police’s headquarters in South Jakarta on Friday
Arrested separately in Bandung, West Java, the three suspects are alleged to have helped the two Kampung Melayu suicide bombers, Ichwan Nur Salim and Ahmad Sukri, to carry out their attacks by “supplying explosives and providing transportation facilities”, the police said.
(Read also: Police search house suspected as location for Kampung Melayu bomb assembly)
Setyo further said the police found several pieces of evidence during a search of Ahmad’s house. They included pressure cookers, home-assembled detonator casings made from beverage cans, matches, and triaceton peroxide explosives.
The suspects have been charged under articles 15, 7, and 13 of the 2003 Terrorism Law, he added.
Previously, West Java Police spokesperson Sr. Comr. Yusri Yunus said they had named Ahmad Sukri’s brother in law, identified only as HR, a suspect for allegedly helping the bombers to carry out the attacks. Five people including three police officers were killed in the attack, while 11 people, comprising six police officers and five civilians, were injured. (dis/ebf)
