TERROR SUSPECT GUNNED DOWN AFTER FIRING AT POLICE

Tangerang, Banten, March 9 (ANTARA) - Anti-terror police personnel gunned down a terror suspect at an internet outlet in Pamulang sub-district on Tuesday after the suspect opened fire at them, a police officer said.

"The terror suspect brought a gun into the internet outlet," chief of the Indonesian police headquarters' forensic team Senior Commissioner Amri Kamal said here Tuesday.

Along with his team members, Kamal checked the shooting site at Puri shop-house complex, Pamulang sub-district, Tangerang district on the outskirt of Jakarta.

The Densus 88 anti-terror police just responded to the terror suspect's gunshot when raiding the internet outlet to catch him.
However, Kamal said he had yet to clarify the sort of gun that the terror suspect had used because it remained under the police investigation.

"I cannot yet give details about the suspect's gun. I will soon report it to the police chief," he said.

Meanwhile, a witness named Umi, 25, said that she heard four gunshots when the anti-terror policemen raided the internet outlet.

"I heard four gunshots when the police raided the internet outlet," said Umi, who was visiting Rinova beauty shop next to the internet outlet.

The internet outlet was raided by three policemen, while two other police officers came into the beauty shop to secure the place, she said.
In the raid, the police shot dead three suspects and arrested three others,
According to the Indonesian police's spokesman Inspector General Edward Aritonang, the dead suspects were only identified as YI alias M, R and H.

In another development, over the past two weeks, the Indonesian police's anti-terror personnel have also been hunting a group of armed terror suspects in Aceh Besar district.

Aceh Governor Irwandi Yusuf said the terror suspects wanted to make his province their basis of struggle in Southeast Asia.
Indonesia has been fighting terrorist cells in the country since the 2002 Bali bombings that claimed 202 lives, including 88 Australian holiday makers.

Two years before the terrorists attacked the resort island of Bali, Indonesia was rocked by the Christmas eve bombings in 2000.
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