2 terrorists killed in Indonesia raid

POSO—Indonesian police said Saturday they had killed two armed terrorists who were part of a group that gunned down two officers last month.

The pair were among four gunmen who opened fire and killed the officers as they guarded a bank in Palu district in Central Sulawesi.

“Two suspects were killed in raid at 11 a.m. (0400 GMT) at Tambaro village in Poso district. They are linked to the group who shot the policemen in Palu,” Poso police chief Pulung Rohmadianto said.

He said anti-terror police squad Detachment 88 carried out the raid with paramilitary police and local Poso officers.

“We also confiscated an M-16 and a revolver from the dead suspects,” Rohmadianto said.

The police have previously arrested two suspects from the terror group and estimated three others linked to the group were still at large.

The shooting was the latest in a series of recent terror-related incidents including a Good Friday plot to blow up a Jakarta church.

Indonesia is struggling to deal with the threat of homegrown Islamist militants who oppose the country’s secular, democratic system and want to create a caliphate across much of Southeast Asia, including the Philippines.