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The arrest of an Indonesian woman follows a series of deadly bombings in Jolo, in the southern Philippines.
An Indonesian woman suspected of planning a suicide bomb attack in the southern Philippines was arrested Saturday in a pre-dawn raid, the army said.
The arrest comes less than two months after 15 people were killed and 74 others injured when two suicide bombers, both women, blew themselves up on the island of Jolo in the southern province of Sulu.
The security forces blamed the armed group Abu Sayyaf for the August 24 attack.
The Indonesian woman was identified as Rezky Fantasya Rullie and was the widow of an Indonesian who was killed in Sulu in August, the Joint Task Force said in a statement.
She is also believed to be the daughter of two suicide bombers who killed 21 people in an attack on a Catholic cathedral in Jolo early last year, he added.
That attack was attributed to a group linked to Abu Sayyaf.
“We have been chasing foreign suicide bombers in Sulu after the double attack on the city of Jolo (in August),” said Brigadier General William Gonzales.
“Rullie was the first on our list since we have received intelligence reports that he is going to carry out (a) suicide bombing.”
A vest equipped with tube bombs was seized along with other improvised explosive device components from the Jolo island house, believed to be owned by an Abu Sayyaf leader, the army said.
Rullie was detained along with two women married to members of Abu Sayyaf, it added.
Listed by the United States as a terrorist organization, Abu Sayyaf has been accused of some of the worst bombings in the Philippines, as well as the kidnapping of foreign tourists and Christian missionaries.
Suicide attacks were once very rare in the Philippines, but there have been at least five since July 2018.
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