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M-16 Links Heist and Precinct Raid: Indonesian Police
Farouk Arnaz | October 05, 2010

Bank robbers carrying guns as they came out from the CIMB Niaga bank in Medan, North Sumatera, Wed, 18 August 2010. (Photo Courtesy of Tribunnews.com) Bank robbers carrying guns as they came out from the CIMB Niaga bank in Medan, North Sumatera, Wed, 18 August 2010. (Photo Courtesy of Tribunnews.com)
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Jakarta. Results of tests conducted by the National Police Forensic Laboratory have confirmed a link between the Aug. 18 Medan bank heist and the attack on a police precinct station a month later, an officer said on Tuesday.

“A ballistic test revealed that the bullets used to attack the Hamparan Perak Police station came from an M-16 rifle that had been previously seized by one of the assailants, Taufik Hidayat, from Second Brig. Emanuel Simanjuntak who was shot to death,” National Police spokesman Untung Ketut Yoga Ana said at a press conference.

He was referring to the armed robbery of a Medan branch of CIMB Niaga bank on Aug. 18 which left Simanjuntak dead and two bank security guards wounded.

The assailants, who were estimated to number around 16, had fled with Simanjuntak’s M-16.

Taufik, whom police have said led the Medan heist, was gunned down by police on Saturday in the Dolok Masihul area of North Sumatra’s Serdang Bedagai district.

Police seized AK-47 automatic rifles, two M-16 rifles and two FN revolvers, as well as 700 rounds of ammunition from them.

Untung said that during the bank heist Taufik shot Simandjuntak with his AK-56 rifle, but after grabbing the officer’s M-16 used it to shoot at the victim again.

“First, Taufik attacked Emanuel with his own rifle, but after Emanuel went down, he seized his rifle to shoot him again,” Untung said.

Untung also confirmed that the AK-47 and AK-56 rifles previously found at an empty house in Medan were also related to the same group.

Police have said that the CIMB Niaga bank heist and a series of other robberies on banks, Internet cafes and a money changer in Medan had been intended to finance the operations of a militant group caught training in a forested area in the neighboring province of Aceh in February.

The group, which police said was linked to the Al-Qaeda terror network, has also been accused of being behind the Sept.22 attack on the Hamparan Perak Police station that left three officers dead.

The attack came a few days after police raided several locations in Medan and Tebing Tinggi, some 200 kilometers southeast, killing three suspects, wounding four others and arresting at least four others.

At least 50 suspected members of the Aceh militant group have been arrested and several more have been killed in police raids since the training camp was destroyed by police in February.