14 March 2017

Nerws Story: Indonesian police nab bomb maker, financial provider for terror attack

JAKARTA, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Anti-terror squad of the Indonesian national police have arrested two alleged militants, the bomb maker and financial provider for a terror attack, a police officer disclosed here on Monday.

Agus alias Abu Muslim or Abu Abdullah and Soleh alias Zalzalat or Gungun were captured last week as they were allegedly linked with the terror attack on a government building in the provincial capital of West Java last month, Inspector General Boy Rafly Amar, national police spokesman said at the national police headquarters.

Both men provided funds to finance the terror attack in the city on February 27, the spokesman said.

Soleh provided the bombs for the attack after he made them at his own chemical laboratory, another national police spokesman Senior Commissioner Martinus Sitompul said.

Read the full story at Xinhua