Shooting Contact In Poso, Central Sulawesi, DPO Suspected Of Being Shot Dead By Ahmad Gazali

Documentation of four MIT Poso members on the wanted list. ANTARA/Kristina Natalia

PALU - The Madago Raya Operations Task Force resumed armed contact with the East Indonesia Mujahidin (MIT) terrorist group in Poso, Central Sulawesi, and reportedly shot and killed one of them, who was on the wanted list.

However, it is not yet known for sure when the gunfight took place, although it was reported that one of the DPOs, suspected to be Ahmad Panjang alias Ahmad Gazali, had been shot and killed.

"He is right what happened," said the Head of the Madago Raya Operations Public Relations Task Force, Commissioner Didik Supranoto, as reported by Antara, Tuesday, January 4.

According to him, the head of the Central Sulawesi Police is still heading to the scene and will soon give a press statement about it.

''Initial information that there was a shootout, which was suspected by Ahmad Gazali Aias Ahmad Panjang, for certainty, the head of the Polda (Central Sulawesi) will say when and where. (He) just headed to Parigi,'' said SupranotoData of the Madag Raya Task Force, there are still four members of MIT Poso who are included in the DPO, namely Askar alias Jaid alias Pak Guru, Nae alias Galuh alias Muklas, Suhardin alias Hasan Pranata, and Ahmad Gazali. alias Ahmad Long.

The four DPO MIT Poso people are suspected to be still wandering in the mountains of Poso, Parigi Moutong, and Sigi Regencies.