Indonesia's most wanted militant killed in jungle shootout - body retrieved from jungle


Evidence of militant activity is displayed during a news conference following the raid in a joint operation by military and police that killed the leader of militant group East Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT) Ali Kalora and also another militant identified as Jaka Ramadhan, at the Parigi Moutong police station in Parigi Moutong district, Central Sulawesi province, Indonesia, on September 19, 2021, in this photo taken by Antara Foto via Reuters.

PALU (Indonesia), Sept 20 (AP): The bodies of Indonesia’s most wanted militant with ties to the Islamic State group and a follower, who were killed in a jungle shootout with security forces, were evacuated early Sunday to a police hospital for further investigation, police said.

The military earlier said the militants killed late Saturday were Ali Kalora, leader of the East Indonesia Mujahideen network that has claimed several killings of police officers and minority Christians, and another suspected extremist, Jaka Ramadan, also known as Ikrima.

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