"We are still tracing the cells linked to Syarif."Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Police are still tracing possible terrorist cells linked to Muhammad Syarif, the suicide bomber at the mosque in the Cirebon city police resort headquarters.
"We are still tracing the cells linked to Syarif," national police`s head of public relations Inspector General Anton Bachrul Alam said here on Monday.
He said the police believed Syarif was not alone. "It is impossible he had acted by himself," he said.
A team from the national police`s anti-terror Densus 88 unit has already set out chasing his accomplices.
"Thirty witnesses have been questioned so far including his wife, parents and younger brother but no indications have been found of their involvement," he said.
Syarif has been confirmed to be the suicide bomber that blasted a bomb at the Adz Zikro mosque in the compound of the Cirebon city resort police headquarters on Friday (April 15) killing himself and wounding dozen others including the chief of the Cirebon police city resort Adjunct Senior Commissioner Herukoco.
With the bomb strapped on his stomach he entered the mosque and sat behind the police chief. Just as the prayers began he detonated it. He died on the scene with his stomach being crushed.
He is one of five people the police have so far wanted in connection with vandalization at the Alfarmart shop in Cirebon.
Syarif and 11 others from a local mass organization in Cirebon have been involved in the vandalization of the Alfamart but six of them have been arrested.
(Uu.H-YH/HAJM/A014)
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