Indonesian police evacuates Jakarta’s outskirts due to bomb

The police of Indonesia evacuated people living in the outskirts of Jakarta on December 10 after discovering a bomb in a raid on suspected Islamic militants who were planning to attack the presidential palace.

Spokesman of the Indonesian National Police Boy Rafli Amar said people living within 300-metre radius of the house that was raided were evacuated.

The bomb was found in a cooker. Police explosive experts presented at the scene. 

Two men and a woman were arrested. The spokesman added that the three are suspected to be members of a militant network involving a bomb-making establishment raided last month in West Java province.

Last month’s captured suspects planned bomb attacks in Jakarta, including the parliament building and the Embassy of Myanmar.
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