Two IS-linked militants nabbed in Indonesia's Kalimantan province


This handout photo taken and released on June 1, 2020 by Indonesia's South Kalimantan police shows belongings of one of the attackers displayed as evidence in the South Daha district in South Kalimantan. - Sword-wielding militants killed an Indonesian policeman and critically injured another on June 1 in what authorities described as a terror attack by suspected Islamic State-linked extremists. - AFP

JAKARTA (Xinhua): The Indonesian anti-terror squad arrested two IS-affiliated militants who had plotted and given directives on the strike at a police station in South Kalimantan province earlier this month that killed one policeman and injured another.

The National Police's spokesman Brigadier Awi Setiyono said on Monday (June 8) that the two militants with the initials of TA and AS were captured on Friday in the province's Banjarbaru city and Tanah Bumbu district.

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