JAKARTA: Indonesian police Sunday shot dead two terror suspects and arrested two more, only days after foiling separate plans by an IS-linked group for a Christmas-time suicide bombing near the capital.
The pair were fatally shot at a house in Purwakarta 100 kilometres (62 miles) east of the capital Jakarta after allegedly resisting arrest.
“We ordered them to surrender and even fired warning shots, but they resisted and started to attack our officers with machetes, so we had to take them down,” national police spokesman Awi Setiyono told AFP.
Police raided the house after arresting and interrogating two men on Sunday morning.
The suspects attacked officers with knives but gave up after being shot and wounded, police said.
After being interrogated, they led police to a house at a separate location where two more members of the group were hiding.
Several sharp weapons were seized from the house but no explosives were found.—APP
