2 terror suspects shot dead in Indonesia

Indonesian police yesterday shot dead two terror suspects and arrested two more, only days after foiling separate plans by an IS-linked group for a Christmas-time suicide bombing near the capital.

The pair were fatally shot at a house in Purwakarta 100 kilometres east of the capital Jakarta after allegedly resisting arrest.

Police raided the house after arresting and interrogating two men yesterday morning. The suspects attacked officers with knives but gave up after being shot and wounded, police said.

After being interrogated, they led police to a house at a separate location where two more members of the group were hiding.

Several sharp weapons were seized from the house but no explosives were found.

Police said the suspects and the dead men were members of the Jamaah Ansharut Daulah group, a local militant outfit which supports the Islamic State group and was responsible for a November attack on a church which killed a toddler on Borneo island.

Less than a week before Christmas, Indonesian police thwarted a suicide-bomb plot planned for the holiday season and shot dead three militants in a raid at South Tangerang just outside Jakarta.