The suspected leader of a radical Islamist group linked to the 2002 Bali bombings has been arrested 15 months after he escaped from a high security prison in Singapore, the government said on Friday.
Mas Selamat Kastari was the alleged mastermind of a plot to hijack a plane and crash it into Singapore’s Changi Airport.
Singapore authorities have also accused him of planning several truck bomb attacks across the island state.

Riot police in Malaysia have fired tear gas to disperse thousands of people in Kuala Lumpur, who protested against the use of English in local schools.
Some 124 people were reportedly held, as the demonstrators tried to march to the royal palace in the capital.
The ethnic Malay protesters demanded a return to Malay as the teaching language for maths and science.
Both subjects have been taught in English since 2003 to improve pupils’ poor language skills, officials say.

PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia is making an immediate donation of US$1 million (RM3.5 million) as humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said the money had been channelled through non-profit medical relief organisation Mercy Malaysia to deliver relief supplies to the Palestinian victims.
The Foreign Ministry, he said, had reopened its Fund for Palestine to receive and coordinate the collection of assistance from Malaysians.