AP
Police in Indonesia’s South Sulawesi province shot dead two suspected Islamic militants Wednesday with alleged links to Indonesian suicide bombers who attacked a church in the southern Philippines in 2019, officials said.
The suspects – a man and his son-in-law – were slain as they violently resisted arrest while officers moved in to take them and more than a dozen others into custody from a house in the provincial capital Makassar, the National Police said, initially identifying the two by their initials only.
“Two people identified as MRS, 46, and SA, 23, died because at the time of their arrest, both of them fought back using a machete and an air rifle,” police spokesman Ahmad Ramadhan said in a statement. A police report seen by Benar News named the dead suspects as Mohammad Rizaldy S and Sanjai Azis.