JAKARTA: Police have shot dead two Chinese Uighurs who were allegedly fighting with an extremist group in central Indonesia led by the country’s most wanted Islamic radical, an official said Wednesday.

The members of the mostly Muslim ethnic minority were killed in a shootout on Tuesday morning in mountains on the island of Sulawesi, as authorities hunted for the radical group’s leader.

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