Surrender ends Indonesia detention centre riot

Breathing space: Police officers resting in an armoured vehicle parked outside the detention centre in Depok, West Java. — AP

JAKARTA: Dozens of prisoners who took over a police detention centre near Indonesia’s capital and killed five officers surrendered to police, the country’s top security minister said.

The riot erupted late Tuesday at the headquarters of the elite Mobile Brigade police in Depok, on Jakarta’s southern outskirts, where four days earlier authorities arrested three militants they accuse of planning to attack police.