Indonesia mob attacks 'heretic' Muslims, kills 3

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Police say a machete-wielding mob of Muslims attacked the home of a minority sect leader in central Indonesia, killing 3 and wounding six others.

Local police chief Let. Col. Alex Fauzy Rasyad says about 1,500 people - many with machetes, sticks and rocks - attacked about 20 members of the Ahmadiyah Muslim sect who were visiting their leader in his house in Banten province on Indonesia's main island of Java.

The attackers stabbed to death at least three men. Rasyad said Sunday that six others were rushed to a nearby hospital, four with critical injuries.

The attack was the latest targeting the Ahmadiyah sect in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation. Some Muslims see followers of Ahmadiyah as holding heretical beliefs.