Indonesia minister stabbed by IS-linked pair, says official | Malay Mail

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JAKARTA, Oct 10 — Two members of an IS-linked terror network stabbed Indonesia’s chief security minister Wiranto today, the intelligence head said, as the powerful politician underwent emergency surgery for his wounds. Television images showed security officers wrestling a man and woman to the...

Indonesian police and military carry Security Minister Wiranto to a helicopter to be medivaced after he was stabbed in Pandeglang, Banten province, October 10, 2019. — AFP pic

The suspects were identified as 31-year-old Syahril Alamsyah and Fitri Andriana, 21 — a married couple, according to local media. Wiranto, 72 — who police have said was one of several targets in an earlier failed assassination plot — was rushed by helicopter to the capital where he was treated for two knife wounds in his stomach.

The assassination attempt comes just over a week before Widodo kicks off a second term as leader of the Southeast Asian archipelago of some 260 million people, the world’s biggest Muslim majority nation. “JAD members are targeting what they call Ansharut Thagut and that includes senior government officials,” said Muhammad Syauqillah, programme director of the University of Indonesia’s Terrorism Study Centre.

 

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