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Indonesian National Police spokesperson Insp. Gen. Anton Bachrul Alam holds up the photo of suspected suicide bomber who blew himself at a mosque inside a police compound in Cirebon, West Java on Friday, during a press conference at the main police hospital in Jakarta, Saturday. The bombing was the first attack on a mosque since extremists started targeting the predominantly Muslim country a decade ago.(AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)A man named Muhammad Syarif is suspected to have been the suicide bomber at the Cirebon Police station, as suggested by a motorcycle license (SIM C) that was found at the scene of the murder of military officer Chief Corp. Sutejo.
Sutejo was stabbed at a road side shop in Cirebon on April 3 after an argument with someone who had asked him by phone to come to their shop.

The photograph on the driver’s license resembled the dead suicide bomber. The license bore the name Muhammad Syarif, with the address written as Astana Garib Utara, Pekalipan, Cirebon.

A suicide bomber detonated a low-explosive bomb strapped to his body during Friday prayers at the Az-Dzikra mosque on the Cirebon Police compound.

Tribunnews.com reported that the house was empty because the inhabitants – the parents and sibling of Muhammad – had left the house on Friday night.

After looking at a photo of the suicide bomber, neighborhood unit chief (RT) Supandi said that the two men bore a similar resemblance.

According to Supandi, Muhammad was around 170 centimeters tall, fair-skinned and had slightly wavy hair. These descriptions were similar to that of the suicide bomber.

Muhammad Syarif’s mother was brought to Jakarta by police officers on Friday night.