Indonesian police shoot suspected militant after officer slashed

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Indonesian police shoot suspected militant after police officer slashed

JAKARTA - A suspected militant has launched an attack on an Indonesian police station in the country's second-biggest city, slashing one officer with a sickle, before being shot and taken into custody, police officials said on Sunday .

Abdurahman is considered the ideological leader of Jemaah Ansharut Daulah , a loose grouping of Islamic State sympathisers in Indonesia.

 

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