Family members pick up Ibrohim`s body in Jakarta

Pekanbaru (ANTARA News) - Members of the family of Ibrohim alias Boim, the terror suspect who was killed in a police raid in Temanggung, Central Java, last Saturday, have gone to Jakarta to pick up his body.

Contacted by phone from here on Wednesday, Ibrohim`s brother, Abdullah Sukri who works for Al Ittihad foundation in Pekanbaru, said he had arrived in Jakarta to pick up Ibrohim`s body.

"I have arrived in Jakarta to pick up the body of my younger brother, Ibrohim," Abdullah Sukri said at the Soekanto police hospital in Kramat Jati, East Jakarta, on Wednesday.

Abdullah, who went to Jakarta with Ibrohim`s wife, said he never dreamed that his younger brother would be involved in inactivities such as the bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotels in Jakarta on July 17, 2009.

Chief of the National Police Headquarters` public relations division, Insp Gen Nanan Soekarna, said in Jakarta on Wednesday that the body of a terrorist, shot dead in a raid in Temanggung, Central Java, last Saturday was not that of Malaysian extremist Noordin Mohammad Top, but of Ibrohim.

Ibrohim was wanted for his role in the July 17, 2009 bombings at the JW Marriot and Ritz Carlton hotels in the Mega Kuningan area in Jakarta.

Soekarna made the statement to the press at the Soekanto police hospital in Kramat Jati, East Jakarta, in the company of Police Health and Medical Center chief Brig Gen Edy Saparwoko.

He said the police could not immediately announce the identity of the dead man from Tembanggung because they had to wait for the results of DNA tests.

"Ibrohim played a dominant role in the bombings of the JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotels in Mega Kuningan in Jakarta," Soekarna said, adding Ibrohim was a florist at one of the hotels. He had helped to carry bombs into the hotel and hide them in Room 1808 of the JW Marriott Hotel.

The almost simultaneous bomb explosions at the two luxury hotels claimed nine lives including six foreigners.(*)