Palembang (ANTARA News) - Police have set up a police line in front of a house on Jalan Papera where on Tuesday (July 1) they arrested a terror suspect, identified by the initial W, and an associate.
According to eye-witnesses, members of the police`s Special Detachment 88 raided the house on Tuesday at around 15.00 and arrested W and a companion.
At 16:00, W and his friend were put in a police car and taken away under escort of plainclothes officers.
Until Wednesday, uniformed members of the bomb unit of the South Sumatra Mobile Brigade were still guarding the house which had been left empty.
A local resident, Sulaiman, related the police raid happened in a tense atmosphere, especially because W made an unsuccessful attempt to escape through a window of the house.
According to Suleiman, W had moved into the house only two months ago and almost never socialized with neigbors.
The police raid and W`s arrest caused quite a stir among local residents as their area had always been trouble-free and peaceful. Many of them were in fact struck by fear, particularly when on Tuesday evening police also took out goods, said to be tools and materials to make electronic explosive devices, from the house.
Meanwhile, the South Sumatra police`s chief infomration officer, Senior Commissioner Abu Sopah, said he could not give any information on W`s arrest as the entire operation was carried out by personnel from the National Police Headquarters.
"For information on this, please, contact National Police Headquarters," he said. (*)
According to eye-witnesses, members of the police`s Special Detachment 88 raided the house on Tuesday at around 15.00 and arrested W and a companion.
At 16:00, W and his friend were put in a police car and taken away under escort of plainclothes officers.
Until Wednesday, uniformed members of the bomb unit of the South Sumatra Mobile Brigade were still guarding the house which had been left empty.
A local resident, Sulaiman, related the police raid happened in a tense atmosphere, especially because W made an unsuccessful attempt to escape through a window of the house.
According to Suleiman, W had moved into the house only two months ago and almost never socialized with neigbors.
The police raid and W`s arrest caused quite a stir among local residents as their area had always been trouble-free and peaceful. Many of them were in fact struck by fear, particularly when on Tuesday evening police also took out goods, said to be tools and materials to make electronic explosive devices, from the house.
Meanwhile, the South Sumatra police`s chief infomration officer, Senior Commissioner Abu Sopah, said he could not give any information on W`s arrest as the entire operation was carried out by personnel from the National Police Headquarters.
"For information on this, please, contact National Police Headquarters," he said. (*)
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