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Off-duty cop thwarted bombers in Jakarta attacks
ATTEMPTS by militants to detonate more bombs during Thursday's terror siege on Central Jakarta were foiled by an off-duty police officer who shot and killed one attacker, while incapacitating another - both at close-range.
The officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Untung Sangaji, told reporters yesterday he had no choice but to gun down Sunakim alias Afif, the most recognisable of the four militants who mounted the attack. This was because he saw that Sunakim was about to hit a switch that was likely to detonate a bomb he was carrying in his backpack.
The instructor at the Maritime Police Training Centre also shot at the legs of a second militant, possibly Muhammad Ali, whom Lt-Col Untung believed was also carrying a detonator.
Like Sunakim, Ali had a pistol in his right hand. Both men had been shooting randomly into the crowds and at police officers.
- See more at: http://news.asiaone.com/news/asia/duty-cop-thwarted-bombers-jakarta-attacks#sthash.wWzCWpKD.dpuf
