Kendari Police nab two ships

Kendari Police nab two ships

KENDARI, Southeast Sulawesi: Personnel from the Water Police
section of the Southeast Sulawesi Provincial Police seized on
Friday two ships in Saponda waters, in Konawe regency here, for
carrying eight tons of various explosive materials.

Water Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Sistomo said that 12 crew
members of the two ships were held after the arrest, but the
owners of the ships were still at large.

Among the explosive materials were compressors, fertilizer,
rolls of tin, empty jerrycans and various other materials that
police suspected would be used to make bombs. -- JP