Bali aftermath 'Chief planner' arrested
'I just have received reports from the investigation team ... (it) has arrested three people and Imam Samudra was one of them,' National Police chief Da'i Bachtiar told reporters.
Samudra was arrested at the Merak port in the province of Banten, near Jakarta. He was caught inside a bus that was about to enter a ferry for the adjacent island of Sumatra.
Two other two people were caught on Tuesday and Wednesday in a village in Banten; they are believed to be Samudra's bodyguards.
On Sunday, police identified Samudra, a 35-year-old man from West Java, as the top planner in the group that carried out the attacks at the Kuta nightclub area on Bali island.
Police have so far identified seven suspects in the Bali bombings but only one other suspect is known to have been arrested.
