REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, DENPASAR – Police’s Densus 88 counterterrorism unit shot five suspected terrorists dead during the raids in two locations in Bali late Sunday. The five suspects were preparing to rob a money changer in Kuta and jewelry store in Uluwatu, Jimbaran, Bali.

The suspects with the initial HN (32 years) and AG (30 years) were shot in Gunung Soputan Street, Banjar Abian Timbul, West Denpasar. And the other three, UH and DD (27) from Bandung and M (30) from Makassar, were shot in the raid in Danau Poso Street, Sanur Beach.

“The five suspects were shot dead during the raids because they fought back,” the Indonesian National Police Spokesman, Boy Rafli Amar, said in his text on Sunday night. Police have tailed them after surveying certain places, such as jewelry store in Uluwatu, Bali Money Changer, and Cafe La Vida Loca.

Police confiscated two firearms, two magazines, 48 nine millimeters caliber bullets, and masks. “The suspects are part of the group in CIMB Niaga Bank robbery in Medan. They have been tailed for a month,” he said.

The bodies were taken to Sanglah Hospital in Denpasar. Some members of Disaster Victim Identification of Bali Police entered the mortuary. The Head of Forensic Doctor in Sanglah Hospital, dr Dudut Rustiyadi, said the doctors did not conduct the autopsy to the bodies. “We stored the bodies,” he said.

The bodies were later taken by five units of ambulance to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Monday. They will be flown to Jakarta to be identified in Indonesian National Police Hospital. 

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