Three suspects arrested over Maluku attack: Da'i<\/p>\n
M. Azis Tunny and Wahyoe Boediwardhana, The Jakarta Post, Ambon\/Nusa Dua<\/p>\n
Police have arrested three people in connection with the Monday
\nattack on a Maluku police post that killed seven people, National
\nPolice chief Gen. Da'i Bachtiar said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\"We're still questioning the three arrested suspects,\" Da'i
\nsaid after the opening of the 25th Asean Chiefs of Police
\nConference in Nusa Dua, Bali.<\/p>\n
In Ambon, however, police on Tuesday would only confirm they
\nhad arrested one suspect on Monday night and refused to comment
\nabout the detention of any others.<\/p>\n
Seven people, including five policemen, died after a group of
\nunidentified gunmen attacked a Mobile Brigade (Brimob) post in
\nthe village of Loki in Seram, the largest island in Maluku
\nprovince. One civilian and an attacker were also killed in the
\nincident in which the gunmen reportedly used military standard-
\nissue firearms.<\/p>\n
Da'i said the attackers were believed to have been trying to
\ndisrupt security in and around Ambon and said police were
\ninvestigating whether there would be more similar strikes.<\/p>\n
He would not comment on whether the attackers were civilians.<\/p>\n
\"When the investigation is finished, we'll let you know. We
\nwill let you know in one or two days,\" Da'i said.<\/p>\n
In Ambon, a suspect, Dahlan alias Asep, was arrested by the
\npolice on Monday night at a hideout in Batumerah village.<\/p>\n
Found in a villager's house, Dahlan had a gunshot wound to his
\nright hand. Police reportedly also found military standard-issue
\nfirearms suspected to have been used in the attack at the house.<\/p>\n
Two residents who witnessed the incident, Wahidin and Junaidi,
\nwere also questioned by police.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, two Brimob platoons from the Maluku and West
\nKalimantan Police found a bag consisting hundreds of rounds of
\nammunition and two homemade bombs when conducting an
\ninvestigation into the attack in the Durian Patah area in Hunuth
\nvillage, Teluk Ambon Baguala district.<\/p>\n
The search was made following a tip from a pickup driver who
\nsaid he had transported two suspicious men from the Leihitu
\nregency.<\/p>\n
Ambon and Lease Islands Police deputy chief Comr. Deny Hermana
\nsaid in Ambon that the driver told police the two men had said
\nthey wanted to go to Laha village but in the Durian Patah area
\nthey threw a package out of the car.<\/p>\n
\"Not far from the location where they threw out the package,
\nthe suspects asked to stop and get out and through the car's rear
\nview mirror, the driver saw that they walked back toward the
\npackage,\" Hermana said.<\/p>\n
Hermana said Asep was suspected of being involved in the
\nincident because of his gunshot injury.<\/p>\n
Police earlier said they believed the attack was conducted by
\nsix people, with bloodstains at the location indicating some of
\nthe group were injured in the incident.<\/p>\n
Maluku Police chief Brig. Gen. Adityawarman confirmed that
\npolice has arrested one suspect but declined to comment on the
\nreason behind the attack.<\/p>\n
\"There's been (a suspect) arrested. I'll inform you later,\" he
\nsaid after a ceremony to pay respect to the dead police officers
\nat Pattimura Airport before their bodies were sent to their
\nfamilies.<\/p>",
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