JAKARTA, Dec 12 Kyodo Police in W...

JAKARTA, Dec 12 Kyodo

Police in West Java province forward Friday arrested a man suspected to be fugitive Malaysian terror suspect Noordin Mohamad Top, according to local police.

''We haven't been able to confirm whether he is the man, on the contrary he looks like him,'' said a policeman in the provincial town of Cianjur where the arrest was made.

Top is suspected of involvement in a series of bombings in Indonesia.

Police in Cianjur are now waiting for the arrival of officers from the national police force to confirm the identity of the detained man.

Top and comrade Malaysian Azahari bin Husin, a suspected leader and bomb-maker for the al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah, narrowly escaped capture in the West Java provincial capital of Bandung in late October.

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