FIVE KILLED IN FIRE FIGHT IN LAMKABEU, ACEH

Aceh Besar, March 6 (ANTARA) - Five people, including three policemen, were killed in a firefight with suspected terrorists in Lamkabeu, Aceh Besar district recently, ANTARA learned here on Saturday.

Three ambulances took the bodies at around 12.00 hours away from Lamkabeu village, Seulimuem sub-district, Aceh Besar.

The killed policemen were second brigadier Darmansyah and second brigadier Hendrik Kusumo from the Mobile Brigade (Brimob) of the Aceh regional police command and first brigadier Boas Waosiri, a member of the Densus 88 police anti-terror unit.

The two others are believed to be members of the armed group that had clashed with the police whose identities were still unknown.
Upon arrival at Bhayangkara Hospital in Banda Aceh all the bodies were immediately taken to the morgue. Newsmen were not allowed to enter the hospital.

The bodies of the policemen could not be evacuated during the fire fight last Thursday afternoon. Eleven other Mobile Brigade members were also wounded in the clash.

Eleven Brimob members from the Aceh regional police command were taken to the Zainoel Abidin hospital after being wounded in the fight lasting from 2pm to around 6pm local time.

Five of the wounded are in intensive care while six others have been moved to Bhayangkara Hospital.

The fight flared up after Brimob and Densus 88 members besieged a residential area in Lamkabeu since Tuesday (2/3) believed to have been used as a hiding place by an armed group suspected to be part of the Jalin group network in Jantho, capital of Aceh Besar.