Indonesia arrests man who resembles Bali suspect

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JAKARTA - Indonesian police have arrested a man they say resembles one of the suspects in the bloody Bali blasts and was trying to leave the country on a false passport.

The man was trying to get on a flight to Penang in Malaysia from the Sumatran city of Medan when he was picked up on Monday, said Amrin Karim, a spokesman for the Medan police.

"We found that he has similar features to one of the possible suspects from the sketches. Also he was using a fake passport and citizenship card," Karim told Reuters by telephone.

He said police had received advance information about the man, but did not elaborate.

Nearly 200 people were killed on October 12 by bomb blasts that ripped through a nightclub area of Bali, Indonesia's premier tourist island. The dead were mainly foreign visitors.

Police have since circulated sketches of three men they say are Indonesian nationals and may have planned or perpetrated the attack.

- REUTERS

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