Sleman, Yogyakarta (ANTARA News) - A team from Jakarta will be sent to Sleman, Yogyakarta, to identify three bodies of suspected terrorists who were shot to death in a raid at Dukuh, Sanggrahan village, Grogol sub district, Sukoharjo District, Yagyakarta, early Saturday.

"At present, the three bodies are being kept in Bhayangkara Police Hospital of Yogyakarta. For the identification process, we are still waiting for the arrival of a team which has left Jakarta," an anonymous source of the hospital said here Saturday.

A team of Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) from Central Java`s Police has arrived in Sleman and directly proceeded to Bhayangkara Hospital.

Anti terror police shot dead three suspected terrorists during a raid at Sanggrahan village in Sukoharjo district, Central Java, early Saturday morning.

A Bhayangkara hospital source spoke on condition of anonymity said that the the bodies of the three suspected terrorists arrived at the hospital at 4 am on Saturday.

"They were immediately taken to the hospital morgue

with tight security precautions from 88 Special Detachments of Yogyakarta and Sleman," said the hospital source.

Heru, 55, a local resident, said the police in a shootout around 1 am until 1.15 paralyzed two terror suspects.

"I woke up after I heard about 20 gunshots, and when I looked out of my window I saw two lifeless bodies lying on the roadside not far from my house," Heru said.

He said that at about 3 am afterward, the police raided a rented house of Agus and seized some evidence among others six rifles, several textbooks on Islam, some pieces of iron, and vests.

According to information from the scene, Agus` house was rented by Endro Yunanto, his wife, and two children.

Meanwhile Prapti, a neighbor, said that the police came to the house at 3 am and took away Endro Yunanto but left his wife and the two children.
(Uu.F001/HAJM)

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