Indonesian police have gunned down seven terror suspects in raids over the past two days, including several with alleged links to a plot to bomb Myanmar's embassy. Thirteen suspects were taken into custody as well, as an elite police unit swooped in on houses across Java, in the biggest counter-terrorism operation in the country for months.In addition to investigating links with the embassy plot, police were targeting suspected terrorist fund-raisers.
In the latest raid, police gunned down three suspects at a rented house in central Java and arrested four others early Thursday after a 15-hour firefight. National police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar said, "They put up resistance and fired shots from inside," he told reporters," adding the men were suspected of being part of a network involved in robberies to fund a
Amar said police were also investigating if they were tied to a plot uncovered last week to bomb Myanmar's embassy.
On Wednesday police gunned down three men suspected of involvement in the Myanmar plot who were holed up at a house in West Java. The deaths followed a seven-hour gunbattle, during which the men hurled homemade bombs at police.
In a separate raid the same day, police in Batang district gunned down one man and arrested a second suspected of robbing a jewelery store to fund terrorist activities.
In total, police carried out around 10 raids across Java.