JAKARTA - Police Wednesday exchanged gunfire with "suspected terrorists" at a villa in the East Java hill resort town Batu after two blasts were heard from the building, reports said.
The official Antara news agency said police had encircled the villa before the exchange of shots but gave no further details.
In a later report, Antara said the exchange of fire involved police and a group of men. There was no mention of terrorists. The Metro private television station said one policeman was rushed to hospital from the site of the clash with a leg wound and added that the raid involved anti-terrorist units of the national and East Java provincial police.
Police could not be reached for comment, but they have stepped up their hunt for militants linked to a series of bomb attacks in Indonesia that have been blamed on Jamaah Islamiyah, a group seen as the regional arm of al-Qaeda. East Java province lies adjacent to Bali island, where three suicide bombers killed 20 people on Oct. 1.
Teletekst reports seven terrorists are killed and one of them (Azahari Bin Husin?) could be the brain behind the bombings on Bali and in Jakarta.
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JAKARTA - Police Wednesday exchanged gunfire with "suspected terrorists" at a villa in the East Java hill resort town Batu after two blasts were heard from the building, reports said.
The official Antara news agency said police had encircled the villa before the exchange of shots but gave no further details.
