JAKARTA, Indonesia – Police in eastern Indonesia have arrested two suspected terrorists allegedly involved in bank robberies to fund their activities, the national police spokesman said Sunday (April 15th).
"They were riding a motorcycle on a street when an anti-terror police squad arrested them on Friday" in the town of Bima in West Nusa Tenggara province, Saud Usman Nasution told AFP.
He said the suspects were part of a terror group that killed a police officer in a 2010 bank robbery in the north Sumatra town of Medan, allegedly to fund terrorist activities.
Nasution said they were also allegedly involved in a militant training camp in Sumatra's Aceh province linked to radical Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, who was jailed for 15 years for funding the camp.
"They have been flown to the capital Jakarta and are being interrogated by anti-terror police investigators," Nasution said.
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