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INDONESIAN POLICE, M'SIAN EMBASSY TO COORDINATE OVER NOORDIN MOHD TOP'S BODY
BY MOHD NASIR YUSOFF
JAKARTA, Sept 18 (Bernama) -- The Indonesian police will coordinate with the
Malaysian Embassy in Jakarta on matters relating to the body of Noordin Mohd
Top, the most wanted terrorist in Southeast Asia who was shot dead in a police
operation in Solo, central Java earlier Thursday.
"We have already contacted the Malaysian Embassy here and the Indonesian
Foreign Ministry as well as the Indonesian Ambassador in Kuala Lumpur, Da'i
Bachtiar," Indonesian police chief Gen Bambang Hendarso Danuri told a press
conference here.
Noordin's body is currently being held at the police hospital here for DNA
identification, a process which could take up to 30 hours. The Indonesian
police, however, are confident that the man who was shot dead in the five-hour
operation, which began at 6am local time, was Noordin. a Malaysian citizen.
Meanwhile, the Malaysian Embassy in Jakarta's deputy head of mission Amran
Mohd Zain, when contacted, said the embassy would give its full cooperation in
the matter.
"We will coordinate with the Indonesian authorities and help them with the
procedures," he said.
Amran said the embassy would also inform Noordin's family in Malaysia
and his other relatives here concerning the latest developments.
Three other terrorists shot dead in the same operation were Bagus Budi
Pranoto@Urwah, Susilo@Adib and Ario Sudarso@Aji.
A pregnant woman, identified as Susilo's wife, Munawaroh, was injured in the
operation.
Bambang said Indonesian police had worked hard over the past nine years in
tracking Noordin and they had also found 200kg of explosives in the house where
Noordin was killed, besides loaded M-16 rifles, laptop computers and various
documents.
In KUALA LUMPUR, Home Minister Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said the
Malaysian government would extend assistance to Noordin's family to bring back
his remains to be buried in the country.
He said Noordin's family had been informed about this latest developments
and that the government was awaiting DNA confirmation that the body is his.
"If necessary we will send a representative of the family to Indonesia to
assist the process (bring back the body)," he told reporters after conducting
checks on the police's road safety operation in conjunction with
Aidilfitri, at the the Jalan Duta toll plaza here.
-- BERNAMA
JAKARTA, Sept 18 (Bernama) -- The Indonesian police will coordinate with the
Malaysian Embassy in Jakarta on matters relating to the body of Noordin Mohd
Top, the most wanted terrorist in Southeast Asia who was shot dead in a police
operation in Solo, central Java earlier Thursday.
"We have already contacted the Malaysian Embassy here and the Indonesian
Foreign Ministry as well as the Indonesian Ambassador in Kuala Lumpur, Da'i
Bachtiar," Indonesian police chief Gen Bambang Hendarso Danuri told a press
conference here.
Noordin's body is currently being held at the police hospital here for DNA
identification, a process which could take up to 30 hours. The Indonesian
police, however, are confident that the man who was shot dead in the five-hour
operation, which began at 6am local time, was Noordin. a Malaysian citizen.
Meanwhile, the Malaysian Embassy in Jakarta's deputy head of mission Amran
Mohd Zain, when contacted, said the embassy would give its full cooperation in
the matter.
"We will coordinate with the Indonesian authorities and help them with the
procedures," he said.
Amran said the embassy would also inform Noordin's family in Malaysia
and his other relatives here concerning the latest developments.
Three other terrorists shot dead in the same operation were Bagus Budi
Pranoto@Urwah, Susilo@Adib and Ario Sudarso@Aji.
A pregnant woman, identified as Susilo's wife, Munawaroh, was injured in the
operation.
Bambang said Indonesian police had worked hard over the past nine years in
tracking Noordin and they had also found 200kg of explosives in the house where
Noordin was killed, besides loaded M-16 rifles, laptop computers and various
documents.
In KUALA LUMPUR, Home Minister Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said the
Malaysian government would extend assistance to Noordin's family to bring back
his remains to be buried in the country.
He said Noordin's family had been informed about this latest developments
and that the government was awaiting DNA confirmation that the body is his.
"If necessary we will send a representative of the family to Indonesia to
assist the process (bring back the body)," he told reporters after conducting
checks on the police's road safety operation in conjunction with
Aidilfitri, at the the Jalan Duta toll plaza here.
-- BERNAMA
