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Indonesian police shoot dead three suspected militants
Indonesian anti-terrorism officers shot dead three suspected Islamic militants on Saturday in the central Java city of Yogyakarta, police said.
Published : 15 July 2018, 08:21 AM
Updated : 15 July 2018, 08:21 AM
National police spokesman Mohammad Iqbal said the officers from the elite unit had shot the suspects after being attacked with "sharp weapons and a firearm".
Two officers suffered arm wounds and police seized four machetes and a revolver.
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 US State Department terrorist list.
The majority-Muslim Southeast Asian nation has faced a surge in homegrown Islamist militancy in recent years. In May, around 30 people were killed in suicide bombings in Surabaya, the deadliest attack in over a decade.
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