Three suspects arrested overJakarta bombings

Police in Indonesia say three suspected Islamic militants have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the two suicide bombings that killed three police officers and injured 11 other people in the capital.

West Java police spokesman Yusri Yunus says the suspects were captured early Friday in three places in Bandung, the capital of West Java province. Only their initials and aliases were given.

Police have identified the suicide bombers as Ichwanul Nurul Salam and Ahmad Sukri, both from West Java province.

The Islamic State (IS) group has claimed responsibility. Analysts described the claim as credible and said they believed Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), a local network of IS- linked militants, carried out the bombing.

Two suicide bombers attacked the busy terminal in the capital late Wednesday in a dramatic assault that sparked panic and left human body parts and shattered glass strewn across the street.

Three policemen were killed, and five other officers and five civilians injured in the bombing at the Kampung Melayu terminal. Authorities Thursday raided the houses of the suspected bombers, and found Islamic teaching materials and bladed weapons.

IS propaganda agency Amaq said late Thursday that the "attack on the Indonesian police gathering in the city of Jakarta was carried out by one of the fighters of the Islamic State", in a statement carried by the SITE Intelligence Group.

Hundreds of radicals from Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, have flocked abroad to fight with IS, and the country has seen a surge in plots and attacks

linked to the jihadists over the past year.