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Indonesia probes anti-terror police over 'torture'

Indonesian police said Tuesday they would question dozens of anti-terror officers over the alleged torture of militants after a video posted on YouTube showed a suspect being shot and others abused.

An armed police officer guards the coffin of a terror suspect at a police hospital in Palu, central Sulawesi, on November 3, 2012. Indonesian police say they will question dozens of anti-terror officers over the alleged torture of militants after a video posted on YouTube showed a suspect being shot and others abused.

The blurry 14-minute video posted by several Islamic groups on their websites and YouTube depicts officers forcing a man to strip to his underwear before they shoot him, apparently in the chest.

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