Suspect arrested over plot to attack Marina Bay was planning to work in Sentosa as a cleaner


Indonesian police scouring Batam for other militants from a little-known terror cell, after the arrest of six members, including its leader who was planning to fire a rocket into Singapore's Marina Bay, in August 2016.PHOTO: BATAM NEWS

JAKARTA: The Indonesian militant arrested in Batam on Saturday in connection with a plot to fire a rocket on Marina Bay was planning to travel to Singapore to work as a cleaner, police said on Monday.

Riau Islands police chief Sam Budigusdian told reporters at a press conference on Monday that the suspect said during questioning that he had a job with a cleaning service operator on the resort island of Sentosa.

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