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By APD writer Aditya Nugraha
JAKARTA, March 14 (APD) — Wife of an arrested terrorist finally blew herself with bombs that killed her children as well after a long standoff with the police who encircled the terrorist’s residence in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province city of Sibolga, Indonesian National Police Spokesperson Dedi Prasetyo said here on Wednesday.
The bomb that killed the wife and a child of terrorist suspect Husain, alias Abu Hamzah, went off after midnight following intense efforts carried out by police and local figures in luring her and children in the house to come out peacefully, Prasetyo said.
He said that explosions of the bomb occurred several times from inside the house.
“Series of explosions were heard from 1.20 a.m. to 1.40 a.m. from inside the house. We refrained ourselves from intruding into the house in the first explosion. Our decision was correct as there were more explosions after the first one,” Prasetyo said to describe the tension during the standoff in the terrorist’s house in Sibolga since Tuesday afternoon.
Indonesia National Police Spokesman Dedi Prasetyo
Prasetyo said that Husain also lured his wife to surrender, but it did not work well.
“Husain said that his wife was more exposed to radical teaching spread by Islamic State than he himself,” Prasetyo added.
The explosion prompted a fire that rattled to several houses around, managed to be extinguished at dawn, he added.
Police found parts of Husain wife’s body and several fragments of body parts believed of belonged to one of Husain’s children from inside the house, he said.
The national police spokesperson said that those body parts were from a woman at her 30s of age and an infant at the age of 2 years old. Police, however, have yet to get the exact casualties from the explosions.
Husain said that he lives in the house with his wife and his 3 children.
Fire from bomb explosions gutted houses around the terrorist's house in North Sumatra's Sibolga
A police and a civilian were seriously injured when an effort to break in into the house was replied with bomb explosion at the door on Tuesday.
Meticulous search into the house was conducted by police after the explosion as many bombs were believed to be stashed in Husain’s house.
The arrest on Husain was following the arrest of a terrorist suspect in Lampung province over the weekend. Husain was linked to the suspect in Lampung who planned to attack police facilities in Lampung and in the capital city of Jakarta.
Besides the two, police also arrested another terrorist suspect in West Kalimantan on Sunday where police found many bombs, half-processed bombs and explosive materials inside his house.
Police identified them as “lone wolf”, terrorist who autonomously initiate attacks, of Indonesia’s homegrown terrorist group of Jamaal Anshaarut Daulah (JAD) which has stated its allegiance to IS.
The group was responsible for series of attacks in Jakarta and several other cities, killing police and civilians.
In Jakarta, operative of the group launched attacks in East Jakarta bus terminal in May 2017 and in business district of Thamrin in Central Jakarta in January 2016.
Indonesian court has sentenced JAD leader Aman Abdurrahman with death penalty in June 2018. He was charged of masterminded those deadly attacks.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
