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Indonesia Attacks: Army Hunts Suspected Militants Over Christian Murders

December 1, 2020 by Staff

(BBC News) The Indonesian army has deployed a special force to hunt for suspected Islamic State-linked militants behind a deadly attack on Christians.

Four Salvation Army members were killed – one of them beheaded – in an ambush on Sulawesi island on Friday.

Intolerance against Indonesia’s Christian minority has been rising as the Muslim-majority country battles Islamist militancy.

A church body denounced the killings as terrorism rather than a religious feud.

A group of men wielding swords and guns attacked a Salvation Army outpost in remote Lemban Tongoa village in Central Sulawesi province on Friday morning.

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