Indonesian police end hostage crisis

WEST JAVA— A hostage crisis at a high-security jail in Indonesia ended on Thursday after Islamist militant prisoners, who killed five policemen, surrendered and released an officer they were holding, police said. Police said the five officers, all members of an elite counterterrorism force, were “sadistically” killed by prisoners during the standoff in the jail at the outskirts of Jakarta. It was the highest death toll suffered by the police force, known as Detachment (Densus) 88, which received training and funding from Australia and the United States.—