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Indonesian Police Shoot dead 3 Suspected Militants

by Reuters

   JAKARTA --

   Indonesian anti-terrorism officers shot dead three suspected Islamic
   militants on Saturday in the central Java city of Yogyakarta, police
   said.

   National police spokesman Mohammad Iqbal said the officers from the
   elite unit had shot the suspects after being attacked with "sharp
   weapons and a firearm".

   Two officers suffered arm wounds and police seized four machetes and a
   revolver.

   Iqbal's statement said the men were believed to be members of Jemaah
   Ansharut Daulah (JAD), a loose grouping of hundreds of Islamic State
   sympathizers that is on a U.S. State Department terrorist list.

   The majority-Muslim Southeast Asian nation has faced a surge in
   homegrown Islamist militancy in recent years. In May, around 30 people
   were killed in suicide bombings in Surabaya, the deadliest attack in
   over a decade.