Jakarta – The police's counterterrorism squad has captured 17 terrorist suspects alive and shot dead five others in a series of raids conducted since Thursday last week.

Spokesman for the National Police Insp. Gen. Edward Aritonang said the five suspects were killed in the latest raids on two separate places in Cililitan, East Java and in Cikampek in West Java on Wednesday. The police also arrested a suspect in Cikampek.

"We arrested two yesterday [Tuesday] in Jakarta," Edward said as quoted by kompas.com. He added the squad shot dead the five suspected terrorists as they resisted arrest.

All the suspects were linked to the terror network in Aceh which was raided in March after the police discovered its training camp inside a jungle in Aceh Besar regency.

Edward said preliminary investigation into the terrorist suspects arrested in the past week revealed that the group had planned an imminent strike.

"They are suspected of plotting a terror attack in the coming few weeks," Edward said, but refused to unveil their target and details of the planned attack.

However, he said the police were still anticipating a possibility that some other members of the terror group remained at large and could execute the planned attack.