Police Shot Dead Two Terrorist Suspects In Tulungagung

Tulungagung, East Java, July 22 (Antara) - Police anti-terror unit Densus 88 shot dead two terrorist suspects in Tulungagung, East Java, on Monday morning. The police meanwhile had arrested two other suspects, the chief of the East Java Police Command, Inspector General Unggung Cahyono, said in a press statement. The two suspects who were shot to death while at a coffees shop on a road side in Tulungagung are believed to be members of a terrorist group operating in Poso, Central Sulawesi. Unggung Cahyono said the two were found carrying revolvers and a self-made bombs kept in their backpacks. "The two are suspected terrorists from Poso. Densus has monitored their presence in Tulungagung since three days ago before arresting them at around 8.45 this morning," he said. The four terrorist suspects are known by their identities as Dayat, Riza, Mugi Hartanto, serta Sapari. Dayat and Riza hailed from Medan, North Sumatra and were members of the Poso network who had entered East Java carrying guns and bombs, he said. Mugi Hartanto and Sapari meanwhile have been identified as local villagers from Gambiran and Penjor in the subdistrict of Pagerwojo. "They have played a role of a guide for the other two while in Tulungagung," he said. The two terrorist suspects who were shot in a close range died on the scene and their bodies had been taken to Bhayangkara police hospital in Kediri, East Java. The other two who are alive were immediately taken to the East Java Police Headquarters but according to latest information they had been taken back to Tulungagung for the development of the case. Some witnesses said they saw four people in plain clothes approaching the suspects at a coffee shop but none of them knew exactly what was happening later. They only heard shots three to four times and later knew two people had died. "I only heard shots and later saw two men seized and two others dead," Suroso, one of the witness said on the scene. The same testimony was also given by Suyadi and Hartono, two pedicab drivers stationing at a location not far away from the scene. He said they saw two men in the coffee shop before two others arriving by Honda motorcycle and joined them. After shooting two of them and arrested the two others the Densus 88 members put them in a Toyota Xenia car and drove towards Kediri.