The counter-terrorism police of Indonesia. (Photo: Internet)Jakarta (VNA) – Indonesian authorities said that national police stopped a suicidebombing plot on Christmas after killing three people suspects in a fireexchange at a house in South Tangerang, Jakarta’s outskirts on December 21.
The policealso found the bombs hiding in this place.
National police spokesman Rikwanto said that one of the three suspects threw a bombat the police while being sieged, but it did not explode. The suspects planneda knife attack at a police post and a suicide bombing when many people gather onthe Christmas Day.
The plot was discovered as one of the suspects was captured in the morning of December21, disclosing three other accomplices and their hide.
The siegetook place nearly two weeks after Indonesian police captured four Islamicmilitants, including one woman, in Bekasi, east of Jakarta as they plotted abomb attack in one of the security posts in the Presidential Palace. The policesaid that investigations on the terrorist network and their activities areunderway.-VNA
