Two suspects shot dead in Indonesian militant crackdown

MEDAN: (AP) Indonesia’s elite counterterrorism squad shot and killed two suspected militants who may have had links to a suicide attack at a busy police station in the country’s third-largest city, police said.

Three suspected militants refused to surrender and resisted by shooting at police during the raid in North Sumatra province’s Hamparan Perak village, said North Sumatra police chief Agus Andrianto. He said two suspects were fatally shot, while an officer was taken to the hospital with gunshot and stab wounds to his thigh and waist.