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Police Find Bombs in W. Java River
Jakarta Globe | May 05, 2011

Indonesian Mobile Brigade policemen standing guard outside a police station where a suspected suicide bomber blew himself up during Friday prayers in Cirebon on April 15, 2011. (AFP Photo) Indonesian Mobile Brigade policemen standing guard outside a police station where a suspected suicide bomber blew himself up during Friday prayers in Cirebon on April 15, 2011. (AFP Photo)
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The National Police counterterrorism unit, Densus 88, confirmed on Thursday that it found six pipe bombs in Soka River in Cirebon, West Java, the day before.

The bombs are believed to have been made by the same group that suicide bomber Muhammad Syarif belonged to. Syarif was killed when he detonated a low-explosive bomb strapped to his body inside the mosque at Cirebon Police Headuqarters on April 15.

“Yesterday, the bomb squad [Gegana] and Densus 88 found six pipe bombs. The bombs, we believe, are similar to the one that was detonated Muhammad Syarif at the Cirebon mosque,” National Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Boy Rafli Amar was quoted as saying by news portal Okezone on Thursday.

Boy said the bombs were planned for other terror attacks, but the bombs were ruined because they were thrown into the water.

“After the mosque bombing, the group was scared and disposed of the bombs. We thank God that the bombs were found and were not used for terror attacks,” Boy said.


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