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Muslim sect attacked

JAKARTA: Nearly 1,000 Muslims armed with machetes attacked a housing complex belonging to a minority Islamic sect in Indonesia on Saturday, some of them throwing Molotov cocktails, police and local media said.

At least six persons were injured in the attack and four were held for questioning, radio and television reports said. It was the latest in a series of raids on the Ahamadiyah sect, denounced as heretical by mainstream Muslim groups, since the country's powerful Islamic Scholars Council issued a fatwa, or edict, against it last year. The mob clashed with hundreds of riot police guarding the complex on the outskirts of Lombok island's capital, Mataram, and then stormed the homes of the Ahamadiyah followers. — AP

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