SUSPECTED militants have shot dead three policemen and injured three more, police say, in the latest attack to hit a central Indonesian district known for being a hotbed of terrorism.
The attackers opened fire at paramilitary police patrolling the district of Poso just east of Borneo, the national police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar said, where police believe a terrorist group runs a militant camp.
Police have foiled several small bomb plots in the area in recent months and clashed with militants, shooting dead a suspected terrorist in November after explosives were hurled in their direction.
"Three paramilitary police were killed in the shootout from head and chest gun wounds. Three were injured, two seriously," Amar told reporters on Thursday.
"The gunmen are those who were involved in training activities. The location of the training has been moving around," he said, adding that perpetrators managed to take a rifle from a dead policeman.
Central Sulawesi provincial police spokesman Soemarno, who goes by one name, said two police were shot dead on the spot and the other died later in hospital.
The two seriously injured suffered shots to the jaw and stomach.
The gunmen launched the attack from the mountains before noon and fled, Soemarno said, adding that one had been arrested and anti-terror squads were hunting the others down.
"We believe that this is the same group that has committed terror acts in the community and targets police," Soemarno said, declining to name the group.
Poso was the site of sectarian violence between Muslims and Christians between the late 1990s and mid-2000s that left thousands dead. It has since been described by police as a hotbed of terrorism.
In October, two policemen were found dead with their throats slit in the district while investigating the terror camp, alleging it had links to Islamist group Jemaah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT).
JAT was founded in 2008 by cleric Abu Bakar Bashir - considered the spiritual leader of the al-Qaeda-linked network Jemaah Islamiah (JI) blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, mostly foreigners.
JAT was declared a terrorist organisation by the US in February but is legally listed in Indonesia.
Police in October also arrested 11 members of an Islamic group across Indonesia's main island of Java whom they said were planning to attack the US embassy.
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