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The fire quickly burned the front of the mosque.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – A middle-aged man with the initials D (56 years old) was arrested by police for throwing Molotov cocktails at Al-Istiqomah Mosque, Duri Kosambi, Cengkareng, West Jakarta, on Saturday (12/26) night WIB .
The action of the man from Jatimulya, Kosambi, Tangerang Regency, Banten was quickly discovered by the residents and parishioners of the mosque, who then eluded them when questioned.
“Currently the perpetrators have been secured by the Cengkareng Police and will be handled by the West Jakarta Police,” the Chief of the West Jakarta Police Criminal Investigation Unit, Kompol Teuku Arsya Khadafi in Jakarta, said on Saturday night.
According to the images of the CCTV surveillance cameras that circulate on Instagram’s social networks @ jakarta. latest, the incident occurred around 19.39 WIB.
When the congregation arrived to perform the Isha prayer, a bomb was suddenly thrown over the mosque fence and then into the mosque courtyard.
A congregation in the mosque was nearly the victim of a Molotov cocktail that was fired from outside the mosque.
The congregation later saw the suspect and questioned him, but the man seemed evasive. This caused commotion and crowds before Cengkareng police officers arrived to secure the man.
So far, the suspect’s motive for throwing the Molotov cocktails is not yet known. “We are still deepening,” Arsya said.
Meanwhile, the head of the Cengkareng AKP Criminal Investigation Unit Arnold Simanjuntak explained the bomb dropping incident.
“It is true that someone has been arrested, a man who allegedly threw a bottle of gasoline at the mosque. Currently, the West Jakarta Metropolitan Police have handled it,” he said.
source: Between
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