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Indon cops nab suspect IS-linked plotters

Three IS-linked men had planned a bomb attack during the fasting month of Ramadan in the world's most populous Muslim nation, police say.

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Indonesian police have arrested three suspected militants with links to Islamic State, police say.

The men had planned a bomb attack during the fasting month of Ramadan in the world's most populous Muslim nation, they said.

The men were arrested late on Wednesday in the country's second-largest city, Surabaya, with bomb-making material, guns and a suicide-bomb vest, police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar said.

"Their plan was to attack using a bomb during the holy month of Ramadan," Amar told reporters, adding that their target was the police.

"They had prepared a suicide bomb."

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Ramadan began this week.

Authorities are on high alert after a militant attack in the heart of the capital, Jakarta, in January in which eight people, including the four attackers, were killed.

Islamic State claimed responsibility, marking the first time known supporters of the group, which is based in the Middle East, had carried out an attack in Southeast Asia.

Amar said the suspects arrested on Wednesday were believed to have been guided by Islamic State teachings and that officials were investigating where they got their weapons.


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