The National Police says it has arrested another suspect, identified by the initials JM, with alleged links to the network of Cirebon Police bomber Muhammad Syarif.
Muhammad Syarif was alleged to have killed himself in a suicide bombing attack on a mosque situated in the Cirebon Police compound, while police were about to perform their Friday prayers.
The blast killed Muhammad and injured several officers.
"Based on information, the suspect received 30 bullets of a 9-millimeter caliber from [terrorist suspect] Musholla," National Police deputy spokesman Sr. Comr. Boy Rafli Amar said Wednesday.
Suspected terrorist Musholla, who was arrested by police, allegedly made the bomb that was used in the attack.
He reportedly also prepared six other pipe bombs intended for another suicide bomb attack, which he stashed near the Soka River in Cirebon.
Boy added that JM, who was arrested in Karanganyar, Central Java, on Tuesday, gave the bullets to another suspected terrorist who later died in a police shootout.
"The 30 bullets were given to Hendro Yunanto in Cemani," he said.
Terrorist suspects Hendro Yunanto and Sigit Qurdowi were said to have died in a gunfight after they resisted arrest by members of the Densus 88 National Police counterterrorism unit in Cemani, Sukoharjo, on
Saturday.
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