Banda Aceh – An Indonesian officer and two non-commissioned officers were killed on Friday when their jeep was hit by a grenade in Indonesia's restive Aceh province, police said here. Two other non-commissioned officers were seriously wounded in the attack, in the Bandar sub-district of central Aceh, Superintendant Yatim Suyatmo told

Suyatmo said the attack came during a mobile police patrol. Four soldiers in the jeep retaliated with fire, but there was no indication of casualties among the attackers, he said. The dead officer was identified as Inspector Rudi Wicaksono.

The attack came as Jakarta was debating whether to extend a three-month truce signed with Aceh separatists, which expired September 2, but has been provisionally extended to September 16.

A spokesman for the separatists in central Aceh, Commander Ali Geurgeul Pirak, denied that the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) was involved in the attack. "GAM is not responsible for this incident," Pirak told AFP. "All our troops are in their jungle bases to respect the truce." Pirak said he was worried that as a result of the attack police would take their anger out on the local population in Rambong, as they often did when they suffered casualties.

Meanwhile in Gunong Geurutee, West Aceh, some 55 kilometers from Banda Aceh, villagers found the unidentifed bodies of a woman and a man in a roadside ravine, Lamno sub-district head Bukhari said. Bukhari said the bodies were badly decomposed, and appeared to have been in the ravine for about two weeks. They were transported to the main hospital in Banda Aceh.