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| Indonesian police crack down terrorist group, killing 3 |
| 2010-09-21 |
| (Xinhua) -- Indonesian anti-terror police squad has killed three people and captured fifteen others allegedly members of a terrorist group in raids in Lampung and North Sumatra provinces, National Police Chief General Bambang Hendarso Danuri said here Monday. One of those captured was a leader of the terrorist cell in Aceh of Northern tip of Sumatra island, the police chief said. The police seized 3 kilograms of TNT and high-powered weapons in the raids on a house in Tanjung Balai district of North Sumatra and in Lampung on Sunday evening. The police said that there were 33 members of the group in North Sumatra which have conducted a series of robberies at banks and money changers this year. The Sunday evening crackdown followed a robbery in a bank in Medan of North Sumatra by the terrorist group. Indonesia has cracked down the Islamic myrmidon network across the nation, scores of Islamic myrmidon top figures have been captured alive or rubbed out, dozens of terrorist suspects have also been detained and brought to justice. |
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