"The three foreigners, who were members of an international drug syndicate, were killed after exchanging fires with police officers, as they fought back by using fire arms," Senior Commissioner Boy Rafli Amar, a spokesman of the National Police, said here on Friday.
One suspect survived in the shooting incident and was currently being interrogated, he said.
"Right now, we don`t where the dead foreigners and seven others who are arrested, are from. But for sure, they ar members of an international drug syndicate given the evidence consisting of a large amount of crystal methamphetamine smuggled through waters area," Boy said.
On January 16, police arrested six illegal drug couriers at Ujung Genteng area, Sukabumi, he said.
The police, however, did not find any evidence because their wooden boat capsized after being hit by four-meter waves off Ujung Genteng.
"The January 16 arrest was done after monitoring the area for one month. Based on information from the six persons, we knew that some more would come," the police spokesman said.
On Thursday evening (Jan 19), four drug dealers initially aboard a big ship, transferred to a small lifeboat to go to a traditional fishing seaport at Ujung Genteng and they carried crystal methamphetamine, Boy explained.
When the arrest was carried out, the foreigners tried to resist by firing at the police officers. The police do not know where they are from.
(Uu.F001/HAJM)
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