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4 killed, 3 captured in Indonesian raid.

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-09-17 13:49

JAKARTA: Indonesian anti-teror Detachment 88 have killed 4 terrorist suspects and captured alive three others in a siege in Solo of Central Java, National police spokesman Nanan Soekarna said here Thursday.

The siege has been carried out on"seven people allegedly as terrorists, three of them alive, four others were killed at the scene," the spokesman told reporters at the police headquarters here.

The group was suspected to be connected with the hotel bombings in Jakarta on July 17, he said.

Local Metro TV reported that the police seized eight explosives, grenades, pistol and laptop in the house at Kepuh Sari village of Mojosongo district in Solo regency.

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Regional militant key figure Noordin Mohammad Top had visited the house, the report said.

The bodies of the four would be sent to Jakarta for autopsy.

According to earlier report, the dead people include Bagus Budi Pranoto, alias Urwah, the one who had been declared as terrorist suspect by the police shortly after the Jakarta bombing occurred.

Urwah was responsible for handling the bomb logistics for the terrorist gang led by the notorious Malaysian militant Noordin M. Top.

The anti-terror squad also found rifles and assembled bombs from inside the raided house. The bombs were already assembled in plastic plumbing pipes like the ones found in police's raid in Bekasi, early August this year, which foiled the terrorist gang's plot to assassinate President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on the independence day of August 17.

Indonesian police have arrested scores of alleged perpetrators of the bombings and pursued scores of others alleged as terrorist suspects since the blasts in JW Marriot Hotel and Ritz Carlton Hotel that killed seven people, including the two suicide bombers, and wounded more than 50 others.