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Indonesia foils terror plot on tourist spots

Terror suspects killed or captured in raids last week were planning to launch attacks on tourism spots in Indonesia, national police said.

Police inspect the remains of a deadly car bomb in Bali, on October 13, 2002. The 2002 bombings there killed 202 people and were blamed on the Al-Qaeda-linked group Jemaah Islamiyah. Terror suspects killed or captured in raids last week were planning to launch attacks on tourism spots in Indonesia, national police said.

An anti-terror police squad shot dead seven suspects and detained four others on Sulawesi and Sumbawa islands in central Indonesia last week.

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