TODAY newspaper citing local reports from Indonesia said that its local authorities have arrested six terror suspects for allegedly trying to hit Marina Bay with a rocket.  They had allegedly planned to fire from Batam.

It further reported: “The suspects, aged 19 to 46, were arrested on Friday morning (Aug 5) by Special Detachment 88, Indonesia’s elite counter-terrorism squad. The group is said to have links to Bahrun Naim, the alleged mastermind behind the attacks in central Jakarta earlier this year.”

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