Rampaging militant shot dead near Jakarta
JAKARTA: Police shot dead a man carrying knives and suspected pipe bombs after he launched a daylight assault on officers near the capital here yesterday, an official said, in an attack later claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.
The man was shot three times as he stabbed wildly at officers on a busy intersection in Tangerang, a satellite city outside here, said police spokesman Awi Setiyono.
Setiyono said the perpetrator threw two suspected pipe bombs at the officers, but neither detonated, and displayed an IS symbol on a nearby traffic pole during the frenzied attack.
“A man suddenly stuck an IS logo sticker on a traffic police post, took a machete from his bag and blindly attacked our personnel.”
The attacker — believed to be a member of a local hardline group — was also carrying a turban, along with knives and the suspected bombs.
The 21-year-old attacker later died of his wounds, the spokesman said, adding that the attacker had two brothers who were police officers in Tangerang. Three officers were injured and taken to hospital.
The IS-linked Amaq news agency claimed credit for the incident, saying the policemen were wounded by “fighters from the Islamic State”, according to the SITE monitoring group.
Meanwhile, a court yesterday sentenced a militant to 10 years in prison for his involvement in a suicide bombing and gun attack in the capital earlier this year.
Dodi Suridi, 23, was captured a day
Agency pix after the Jan 14 attack that killed eight people including four militants, who police said claimed allegiance to the Islamic State group.
Judge Achmad Fauzi, who presided over the trial at the West Jakarta District Court, said Suridi was guilty of violating the country’s anti-terror law by supplying materials used to prepare bombs in the attack.