Indonesia police arrest terrorist suspects related to South Sulawesi bombing
Police in Indonesia's West Nusa Tenggara province has arrested four terrorist suspects who are allegedly linked to the Islamic State (IS)-affiliated Jemaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) terrorist group in Bima city after the suicide bombing in Makassar, South Sulawesi province.
Police investigating near Cathedral church in Makassar, South Sulawesi (Photo: AFP/VNA)
Jakarta (VNA) – Police in Indonesia's West NusaTenggara province has arrested four terrorist suspects who are allegedly linkedto the Islamic State (IS)-affiliated Jemaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) terroristgroup in Bima city after the suicide bombing in Makassar, South Sulawesiprovince.
They are currently being taken to the West Nusa Tenggaraprison for further legal process.
A suicide bombing hit a Cathedral church in Makassar, SouthSulawesi, on March 28, killing two perpetrators and injuring 20 others.
The police said the two attackers were a couple who weremembers of JAD terrorist group.
In 2018, the group conducted a series of suicide bombing inchurches of Surabaya, the second largest city of Indonesia in 2018, killingmany people./.
The Philippine military said 3 people, including a soldier, were killed and 7 other soldiers wounded when government forces clashed with some 30 Abu Sayyaf fighters in the jungles of Sulu province in the southern Philippines on August 29.
Indonesia’s National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo said that police officers are investigating an explosion in front of a cathedral in Makassar, South Sulawesi, on March 28 morning as a suicide bombing.
Indonesian police on March 29 found explosives in a raid outside Jakarta related to a cathedral attack one day earlier on Sulawesi island, Kompas TV channel reported.
