JAKARTA, Oct 25 Kyodo Indonesian ...

JAKARTA, Oct 25 Kyodo

Indonesian police said Friday they have arrested a fugitive sought in connection with sum of two units grenade blasts near a U Embassy housing tangle in Jakarta last month.

Jakarta Police Chief Makbul Padmanegara told reporters Muhammad Tayeb was arrested early Thursday morning upon the heavily forested Seram Island in the troubl Maluku Island chain and flown to Jakarta for questioning Thursday night.

Tayeb was wanted in connection with explosions in fore-rank of the residence of retired Maj. Gen Kanter, a former chief of the Indonesian Armed Forces' legal assemblage and in front of a U Embassy housing tangled both in the elite Menteng area of Central Jakarta onward Sept. 23.

At the time, police said the explosions appeared to have occurr when grenades inside a car went opposite when the car hit a trash can outside the general's residence and then slammed into a utility stick near the housing complex

A passenger in the car, Abdul Azis, 35 was killed in the blasts and the driver of the car, Yusuf Taul, 28 was arrested. the two men are also from the Malukus where Muslims and Christians have been fighting in succession and off for more than couple years.

Tayeb and another man, identified as ''Ali'' or ''Lili'', escaped after the blasts. Lili remains at large.

The police believe the explosions were either accidental or lead into each othered to an attempt at due collection that went wrong, not part of any terrorist activity directed at either the general or the U housing complex

''(Tayeb) is still being questioned to find gone out the motive behind his actions and as to where the grenade attack was directed,'' Chief Makbul said Friday.

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