One policeman was seriously wounded, when a package containing black powder for firecrackers, exploded in the compound of a police dormitory, in Indonesia’s Central Java province yesterday, Central Java Police Chief, Inspector General Ahmad Luthfi said.

Luthfi said, the incident, occurring at the dormitory, in Sukoharjo district, is not linked with terrorism, adding that, it came as a result of the negligence of the injured policeman.

“There is no relation with terrorism,” Luthfi told a press conference.

He said, there were two boxes in the package, one of them exploded when the policeman tried to burn them. The black powder for firecrackers were seized in a police operation in 2021.

Luthfi said that, an investigation will be launched on the presence of the package in the police dormitory compound.–

Source: NAM NEWS NETWORK