Autopsy held in Solo for Ghozi's remains ID Nugroho The Jakarta Post Madiun, East Java

The remains of escaped bombmaker Fathur Rohman Al-Ghozi was transported to Solo last night for autopsy, following suspicion by his family that Al-Ghozi was deliberately murdered by the Philippine security authority.

"The remains of Al-Ghozi are finally in our hands, but we found something strange with it. Previous reports said that he was shot in a gun battle, but we found here that there were sewn wounds in his remains.

Only the autopsy will shed the light over whether he was killed in a gun battle or deliberately murdered," Rusman, the spokesperson of Al-Ghozi family, told reporters in the house of Al Ghozi in Mojorejo subdistrict, Madiun on Thursday.

The remains of Al-Ghozi arrived in Surabaya on Wednesday night from the Republic of Philippine, and were immediately transported to Mojorejo subdistrict for burial.

However, the planned burial in Thursday morning was eventually canceled after the family, after consultation with the Muslim Lawyers Team (TPM), considered that the autopsy had to be taken to determine the cause of Al Ghozi's death.

Previously, an official account cited that Al-Ghozi was killed in a brief shoot-out near the town of Pigkawayan, Cotabato province, late on Sunday in a raid launched by the Philippine authority.

The shoot-out ended the long journey of Al Ghozi, who previously was sentenced to 17 years in jail in Manila for illegal possession of explosives last year. Al Ghozi, who was said to be one of the major operative of the Jamaah Islamiyah (JI), escaped from a jail sentence in Manila, and was on the run before he was killed.

Meanwhile, on late Thursday, members of TPM, including Fachmi Bachmid, and other Muslim activists were seen escorting the remains of Al-Ghozi, which was transported by an ambulance to Solo from his house. Mahendradatta, another lawyer of TPM, said that Al-Ghozi would had autopsy in Moewardi Hospital in Solo.

Fachmi said that Solo was chosen, on the ground it had several hospitals that were well-equipped. Fachmi also said that several noted doctors had expressed their readiness to conduct the autopsy, including Abdul Mun'im Idris from the University of Indonesia.

After the autopsy, the remains of Al-Ghozi would be transported back to Mojorejo subdistrict in Madiun for burial.