JAKARTA, Dec 10 Kyodo Police in I...

JAKARTA, Dec 10 Kyodo

Police in Indonesia's Southeast Sulawesi Province said Tuesday they have arrested sum of two units more suspects linked to last Thursday's bombing of a McDonald's restaurant in toward the south Sulawesi provincial capital of Makassar that killed three the public and injured 11 others.

''Masnur was arrested in Kolaka, Southeast Sulawesi, in succession Monday afternoon, and Ilham in Bone southward Sulawesi, last night,'' Makassar police chief Jose Rizal told Kyodo of the present days by telephone. South Sulawesi Province neighbors Southeast Sulawesi Province.

Masnur was identified by the agency of the police as the proprietor of a metal workshop in Makassar where they place evidence to support their allegations, including TNT black pulverized substance and a booklet on by what means to assemble bombs.

southerly Sulawesi police have named six suspects, including common who died in the bombing and four who have in such a manner far been arrested. Agung Hamid, who allegedly coordinated the operation, is still at large.

The Jakarta-based Kompas daily reported Tuesday that police in Yogyakarta are looking for Agung after he was suspected of having escaped to the province forward Java from Sulawesi.

couple bombs exploded Thursday, one in a McDonald's restaurant located in a large shopping mall and another in a Toyota showroom and workshop -- as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but owned by Coordinating Minister for Social Welfare Jusuf Kalla.

In an interview with Kompas, the minister called the bombings ''messages'' from radical Muslim assign places tos to the government saying that they still ''exist'' in Indonesia and ''''expressions of solidarity'' with their ''alumni'' friends arrested in connection with the Oct 12 bombings in succession Bali that killed more than 190 people

''That is my assumption. Then, because I am a minister who is individual of the central government representatives, the explosions are done in my territory,'' he said.

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