POSO, Indonesia: Indonesian police yesterday shot dead a suspected militant and seized bombs during a raid in a district that has been at the centre of an anti-terror crackdown in the past week, a spokesman said.
The raid on a house was conducted by local police and the anti-terror unit at sunrise in Kayamaya village in Sulawesi island’s central district of Poso.
“One suspect was killed in the raid and another has been arrested and taken to police headquarters in the city of Palu,” national police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar told reporters. “The suspects resisted arrest and began throwing explosives toward the police, who opened fire in response.” Amar said police had seized several assembled bombs and other materials from the home. Witnesses said the men were shot outside a school as they tried to run from the house.
AFP
