Indonesian minister stable after attack by suspected Islamic radical - police

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TV footage showed the minister getting out of a car before he was attacked and slumped to the ground.

JAKARTA - Indonesia's Chief Security Minister Wiranto is conscious and in a stable condition after he was stabbed on Thursday by a man authorities suspect had been radicalised by Islamic State ideology, police said.

A police photograph showed the minister, a former general, being carried on a stretcher into a nearby hospital. The minister had suffered two wounds to his stomach, said Firmansyah, director of the Berkah Hospital. "For the time being, the suspicion from Banten Police, is the man is likely to have been exposed to IS radicalism while the woman is still being investigated," said national police spokesman Dedi Prasetyo.

 

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