Suspected terrorist arrested in Indonesia's North Sumatra


JAKARTA, July 3 (Xinhua): The Indonesian National Police said Friday night (July 2) that its counterterrorism squad has arrested a suspected terrorist, who is believed to be a member of the outlawed Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), in North Sumatra province.

The National Police's spokesperson Senior Commissioner Ahmad Ramadhan said this suspect under the name of BA was one of the participants of the JI shooting training in 2015.

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