Another bomb found at Pancoran blast site
Another bomb found at Pancoran blast site
JAKARTA (JP): The National Police's bomb squad (Gegana) found
yet another pipe bomb on Friday afternoon among the rubble left
by Tuesday's bomb blast in a two-story boardinghouse in Pancoran,
South Jakarta.
The finding of the live bomb brings the total number of pipe
bombs that have been found intact in and around the crime scene
to eight, with 22 others having already exploded on Tuesday,
according to the National Police Forensics Laboratory.
The latest bomb was found in the room of Edi Susilo, who
remains a suspect at large, Jakarta Police chief of detectives
Sr. Comr. Adang Rochana told reporters on Friday.
"The location of the blasts on Tuesday was Edi's room. This
was apparently being used to store the bombs ... I don't think
this is where the bombs were assembled."
The blasts on Tuesday morning injured five people, and damaged
at least four cars and four houses. No fatalities were reported.
Police are still trying to find out what caused the explosives
to detonate.
While police detectives worked round-the-clock and teams
traveled to Sumatra and Kalimantan in search of Edi Susilo, who
is reportedly a car dealer in Sumatra and Kalimantan, Jakarta
Police chief Insp. Gen. Sofjan Yacob spent his time "exercising"
with his colleagues from the Indonesian Military (TNI) at the
Jakarta Traffic Police's parking lot on Jl. Sudirman.
Hundreds of police officers also took part in Friday's mass
exercise class which was the third of its kind since exercise
classes started being held by TNI and police officers at the
Army's Airborne Unit headquarters in Cijantung, East Jakarta, and
marine headquarters in Cilandak, South Jakarta.
The "exercise" classes have been widely rumored to be fronts
for police and military officers to hold meetings on security
issues after the workouts.
After Friday's workout, commander of the Army's Strategic
Reserves Command Let. Gen. Ryamizard Ryacudu said that there was
no way that an active TNI officer could be involved in the recent
spate of bombings.
"Besides, it is not only the military who can assemble bombs.
Nowadays, anybody can do it and can get the materials for it,"
Ryamizard told reporters.(ylt/02)