Police find powerful bombs, detonators

Police find powerful bombs, detonators

Agencies, Jakarta

Police said on Tuesday they had found cache of weapons, including
two powerful bombs, buried in the yard of an empty house in the
Central Java town of Purwokerto.

The cache, which also included 16 detonators and 470 rounds of
ammunition, was unearthed on Monday after a workman found three
bullets while doing repairs in the house.

There have been no arrests and police are questioning the
owner of the house, identified as Haidar.

Banyumas Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Erwin Triwanto said the
bombs were made of materials similar to trinitrotoluene.

Erwin added that the bullets and explosives were commonly used
by the police.

"We are still tracing the owner of the goods, and trying to
find the last person who rented the house," Erwin said.

Haidar told the police his house had been leased for quite
sometime, with the last tenant being a youth whose contract
expired a few months ago.

Erwin declined to identify the youth, saying the police were
still hunting him down.

Police have warned that isolated regions and small towns are
favorite hiding grounds for terrorist groups responsible for
bombings in various parts of the country, including Jakarta, over
the past years.

Recent deadly attacks in Indonesia include blasts that killed
202 people in Bali in 2002 and others in Jakarta in 2003 and 2004
that have been blamed on the Al-Qaeda-linked Jamaah Islamiyah
regional terror group.

Two key members of the group, Malaysian bomb experts Azahari
bin Husin and Noordin Moh. Top, head the police's wanted list.