Related: Indonesian president orders immediate probe into Palu bombing 

              More deaths from Palu blast reported in Indonesia

    JAKARTA, Dec. 31 (Xinhuanet) -- Indonesia's Central Sulawesi provincial Police Chief Brig. Gen. Oegroseno confirmed Saturday afternoon that police have arrested a man believed to have something to do with the morning's bomb blast in Palu that killed seven people and injured 47 others.

    Asked whether the bombing was linked to the planned execution of three locals sentenced to death for provoking sectarian riots in Poso some time ago, Oegroseno replied in the negative. "Our thinking does not go that far," Indonesia Metro TV Station reported.

    The Poso District Court in Central Sulawesi last April 5 passed the death sentence on the three suspects for allegedly provoking the masses in the Poso riots in 2000.

    The three were considered to have committed serious crimes by provoking people to get involved in the conflict which claimed thousands of lives in May-June 2000.

    Saturday's blast came from a low-explosive device planted near a meat kiosk in Maesa subdistrict, south of Palu, at 7:05 a.m. local time.

    Police has cordoned off a wide area, around the kiosk to facilitate a ground-scouring operation led personally by the provincial police chief.

    Oegroseno said police had found another hand-made bomb about four meters from where the blast occurred.

    Meanwhile, presidential spokesman Andi Mallarangeng said President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was informed about the bombing by National Police Chief Gen. Sutanto.

    He said the President denounced the bombing and asked coordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs as well as the National Police Chief to investigate the case thoroughly and take care of all the victims.

    "The president also conveyed his condolences to the families of the victims," he added.

    Deputy spokesman of the National Police Headquarters Senior Commissioner Anton Bachrul Alam said, the perpetrators of the Palu bombing were people intent on keeping perpetuating insecurity in Indonesia.

    Meanwhile, The National Police Headquarters has sent a detective team to Palu to reinforce the Central Sulawesi Police team investigating the bomb blast.

    "We sent a team from the Detective and Crimes Unit (Bareskrim) this morning and they will directly help the ongoing investigation," Antara news agency quoted National Police Headquarters spokesman Inspector General Paulus Purwoko as saying.

    The team will go directly to the site to conduct further examinations, he said.

    The police has identified the death victims. They are Bambang Wiyono Saputra (50), Yakulina Tana (45), Agustina Mande (37), Yoppie (42) and his wife Meisye (39) whose meat kiosk was damaged by the explosion and Sgt. Tasman Lahansang (a member of the Intelligence Unit of the Tadulako District Army Command) and his wife whose identity remained unclear. Enditem