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Anti-terrorism police shoot 3 suspected militants dead in Indonesian

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Anti-terrorism police shoot 3 suspected militants dead in Indonesian

The anti-terrorism police in Indonesia have shot no less than three suspected militants in the central Java city of Yogyakarta reports say.

According to Mohammad Iqbal, the National police spokesman, the officers from the elite unit had shot the suspects after being attacked with “sharp weapons and a firearm”.

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“Two officers suffered arm wounds and police seized four machetes and a revolver,” the police spokesman added.

Iqbal’s statement said the men were believed to be members of Jemaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), a loose grouping of hundreds of Islamic State sympathisers that is on a U.S. State Department terrorist list.

 

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