A prosecutor at Indonesia's Palu District Court indicted on Wednesday that 11 people could be held responsible for a deadly, armed attack in Beteleme village, Morowali regency, in October last year, which left three people dead and at least 35 houses destroyed by fire.

Based on the 2003 Anti-terrorism Law, if proven guilty, they could be sentenced to death, prosecutor Edi Dikdaya was quoted Thursday by The Jakarta Post as saying, during the first hearing of the trial in the Central Sulawesi capital, Palu.

In this indictment, the prosecutor accused the defendants of alleged involvement in the deadly attack in Beteleme, some five hours' journey overland to troubled Poso regency.

He told a court session that the attack began when they held a gathering at the house of Husaini, a resident of Pawaru village, Lembo district, Morowali regency, a few weeks before the attack.

Bloody sectarian clashes rocked Poso regency in 2000 in which some 2,000 Muslims and Christians were killed. Clashes largely subsided last year after the government sponsored a peace pact in 2002, but deadly sporadic attacks still occurred until recently inthe regency.

Source: Xinhua