A senior police officer on Monday announced that they would search firearms and weapons concealed by recently-arrested members of a terror cell in a forested area around a state university.
The search followed the police's finding of several firearms - assault rifles, pistol and live bullets - in the forest located in the University of Indonesia's premises. The weapons belonged to accomplices of a terror cell arrested by the police on Saturday.
M Taufik, Public Information officer at the national police headquarters said, "We plan to undertake further search in the forest after the findings. Further investigation against those involved in the case is underway at the moment, including the possibilities of UI students involvement in the case."
On Saturday, police raided several places in Tangerang, Banten province, believed to be the hideouts of accomplices of the Abu Omar terror cell. During the crack down, police arrested four members of the terror cell, shot one of them as he tried to fire an M16 at them.
Police learned that the Abu Omar terror cell is the terror group that tried to set a bomb in Singapore embassy here. Their leader Abu Omar was arrested in East Kalimantan three months ago. Police said that their weapons were supplied by Islamists in the southern Philippines. |