JAKARTA, Indonesia—Inmates at a detention center for terrorists, including Islamic State supporters, killed five police officers and took one hostage, police said Wednesday, in a bloody security breakdown that marked the single deadliest attack against Indonesian police. The riot broke out late on Tuesday in the prison, located in Depok and holding suspected members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group. It comes several days after the arrest of three terror suspects accused of plotting to attack the police headquarters and other facilities in the same area. "There have been six fatalities -- five of our comrades are dead and one of them also (died)," said national police spokesman Muhammad Iqbal. The escaped prisoners then took a number of officers hostage, five of whom have now been declared dead. A tense situation has last at the prison for over 18 hours now, with police officers seeking to arrest inmates involved in the riot on "terrorism" charges. Among the facility's prisoners is Aman Abdurrahman, an Islamic radical jailed for orchestrating an attack in Jakarta in 2016 that left eight people dead.
Prisoners at a detention centre for terrorists in Jakarta revolt, killing five officers and taking a sixth hostage. Negotiators accept a demand for an audience between the rioters and Aman Abdurrahman, an inmate who is the head of ISIL in the country.