Assailants behead three high-school girls in Jakarta, Indonesia

Unidentified assailants attacked a group of high-school girls Saturday in Indonesia's tense province of Central Sulawesi, beheading three and seriously wounding another.

The students from a private Christian high school were ambushed while walking through a cacao plantation on their way to class, police Maj. Riky Naldo said.

Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation, but Central Sulawesi, the scene of a bloody sectarian war in 2001-02 that left 1,000 dead, has a roughly equal number of Muslims and Christians.

2 more suspects

in plot arrested

Two more people suspected of belonging to a terrorist network planning a suicide attack in Europe were arrested in Denmark, police said Saturday. The man and woman are suspected of assisting four young Muslims arrested Thursday in Copenhagen on charges of planning an "imminent" terror attack.

Police said the two were suspected of "assisting terror attempts" but did not elaborate.

Danish police linked the case to the arrests of a Turkish, Swedish and Bosnian national in Sarajevo on Oct. 19-20 on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack.

Reward offered

for fugitive radicals

Bangladesh, hit by a wave of bombings over the past two months, has put up a reward of $152,000 for information leading to the arrest of two fugitive Islamic radicals.

Police hold the group Jamaa-ul-Mujahideen responsible for some 500 small bombings across the country on Aug. 17 that killed two people and wounded about 100.

Also

Big Ben work: London landmark Big Ben fell silent Saturday to undergo 32 hours of essential maintenance — its longest shutdown in 22 years.

Cuban connection: Cuba contributed $3 million to the 2002 election campaign of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a violation of electoral law, Veja magazine reported Saturday.

Compiled from The Associated Press and Reuters