JAKARTA, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian police have identified that the suicide bombers of the twin attacks on two churches in the Philippines earlier this year, which left over 20 people dead and over 100 others wounded, were Indonesian nationals, national police spokesman Brigadier General Dedi Prasetyo said Tuesday.
The spokesman said the two bombers,named Rullie Rian Zeke and Ulfah Handayani,were husband and wife, and had been deported from Turkey before the attacks, the spokesman said.
Cooperating with the Philippine counterparts, Dedi said that the Indonesian police have secured information from five terrorist suspects being arrested in the Philippines.
The suspects confessed the perpetrators were allegedly Indonesian citizens, he said.
The identities of the bombers were found out after the arrest of two members of an outlawed Jemaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), which is an allegiance of the IS terrorist group in Syria, from Indonesia's East Kalimantan province and West Sumatra province, he added.
Militants in Indonesia has networks with fellows in the Southern Philippines, according to the police.
