Police search for three men over train bombing<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The City Police have distributed rough sketches
\nof three men in connection with the weekend bombing of a railway
\ntrack in the Tangerang district of Serpong.<\/p>\n
City Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Anton Bahrul Alam said on
\nTuesday that the three men were observed at the scene of the
\nexplosion by at least four of 18 witnesses questioned over the
\ncase.<\/p>\n
\"Before and after the explosion, the four witnesses said they
\nsaw these men around the railway bridge. The unidentified men
\nwere carrying green backpacks similar to those commonly used by
\nABRI (military). The witnesses had a pretty good look at the
\nfaces of these men,\" Anton told reporters at city police
\nheadquarters.<\/p>\n
Anton identified the four witnesses as local residents Dadan
\nSumarsa, Wosli Miguan alias Iwan, Marsin bin Arisan Talib and
\ntrain engineer Ade Komarudin.<\/p>\n
\"Each of the strange men was wearing a green scout-like cap
\nwith the symbol of a star in the middle of it. The large men,
\neach sporting a crew cut, were also wearing green jackets and
\ncarrying torches... all were aged between 30 and 35 years old.\"<\/p>\n
The bomb exploded in the middle of a railway bridge over the
\nCisadane river, a few seconds after a freight train carrying
\nsteel passed. A section of the track was destroyed but no
\nfatality resulted from the attack.<\/p>\n
Weighing some 870 tons, the train had 15 wagons.<\/p>\n
Anton said that one of the witnesses, Dadan, was saying a
\nprayer at a local mosque located near the bridge, when he heard
\nthe blast and saw \"two unidentified men\" walking away in a hurry.<\/p>\n
Both men, he said, were wearing green caps with star symbols.<\/p>\n
Wosli said that he was relieving himself near the railway
\nbridge, when he saw two unidentified men wearing green caps.<\/p>\n
\"Wosli said that they were stocky, carrying backpacks and
\ntorches, and that they had shone their torches in his face,\"
\nAnton said.<\/p>\n
Marsin, Anton added, was the only witness who claimed to see
\nthree men heading towards the railway bridge before the freight
\ntrain passed.<\/p>\n
\"Marsin himself was carrying a torch and he shone it in the
\nfaces of these three men. He told us that the three men were
\nwearing caps, with the star symbol, carrying backpacks and
\ntorches, and wearing green jackets,\" Anton said.<\/p>\n
\"Marsin saw them walking to the middle of the bridge, and then
\nleaving. A freight train passed and then the explosion occurred.\"<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, engineer Ade Komarudin told the police that the
\nblast occurred under the 12th wagon of the train.<\/p>\n
\"Ade said that the train slowed down as a result of the
\nexplosion but nothing much happened to it. After the explosion,
\nhe spotted two unidentified men near the bridge,\" Anton said.<\/p>\n
Police found out on Monday the bomb contained nearly one
\nkilogram of trinitrotoluene (TNT), an explosive commonly used by
\nthe Indonesian Military.<\/p>\n
Separately, City Police Chief Insp. Gen. Mulyono Sulaiman said
\non Tuesday that his personnel were probing a possible link
\nbetween the bombing and Monday's train accident.<\/p>\n
\"We are not dismissing the possibility of sabotage in Monday's
\nincident,\" Mulyono said, without elaborating.<\/p>\n
At least 20 electric train passengers were injured after
\njumping down from the train when a pantograph got caught in wires
\nand broke. The commuter train was heading from Tanah Abang in
\nCentral Jakarta to Bogor.<\/p>\n
Spokesman for state railway company PT Kereta Api Indonesia
\n(KAI) Zainal Abidin ruled out the sabotage hypothesis. He said on
\nTuesday the pantograph -- the trolley on the electric train that
\nconnects it to the electricity cables -- came off because the
\ntrain was overcrowded.<\/p>\n
\"Due to the overcrowdedness, the train started to slant, the
\npantograph gave away, and the electricity cables broke away as
\nwell, just as the train reached the Poltangan area, in Pasar
\nMinggu, South Jakarta,\" Zainal told reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\"Today, everything has returned to normal and all other trains
\nare able to move along that route.\" (ylt)<\/p>",
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