Bus set on fire in C. Jakarta<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Angry residents set fire to a Metro Mini bus
\nafter it hit and killed a hotel employee on Jl. Let. Jend.
\nSuprapto in Cempaka Putih, Central Jakarta.<\/p>\n
It was the second bus burning incident after residents on Jl.
\nWarung Buncit, in South Jakarta, set fire to a Kopaja bus which
\nhit and killed an eight-year-old girl Monday.<\/p>\n
Cempaka Putih Sub-Precinct Police Chief Maj. Tito said that
\nWahyudi, a Gran Melia Hotel telephone operator, was riding a
\nmotorcycle with his girlfriend, Tutut Slamet Widyastuti, when a
\nspeeding bus hit them at about 7:30 a.m.<\/p>\n
\"Wahyudi died at the scene and Tutut passed out. She suffered
\nhead injuries,\" Tito said.<\/p>\n
He said angry locals, including ojek (motorcycle taxi)
\ndrivers, threw stones at the bus, smashing its windows.<\/p>\n
They set fire to the bus plying the Senen-Pondok Kopi route
\nafter the bus driver, identified as Zaenudin, escaped, he said.<\/p>\n
Zaenudin, 23, of Jl. Cipinang Muara, in East Jakarta,
\nsurrendered himself to a nearby military station, he said.<\/p>\n
Dozens of military officers on duty to safeguard the last day
\nof the campaign period came to the scene, calming the angry
\ncrowd.<\/p>\n
The remains of the bus were taken to a nearby police station
\nfor further investigation, he said.<\/p>\n
Police rushed Tutut to the nearby Jakarta Islamic Hospital.<\/p>\n
Tutut, an employee at Melawai Optic on Jl. Salemba, in Central
\nJakarta, left the hospital to identify Wahyudi's body at Cipto
\nMangunkusumo General Hospital's morgue.<\/p>\n
In tears, she said she could hardly remember anything.<\/p>\n
\"I was talking to Wahyudi on the way to work when the bus hit
\nus,\" she said.<\/p>\n
Gran Melia's telephone operator supervisor, Reza Bovier, said
\nthat 25-year-old Wahyudi, who lived on Jl. Ampera in Cilandak,
\nEast Jakarta, had worked at the hotel for only two months.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Metro Mini's operations manager Timso Silaen said
\nthe company regretted the incident and would donate money to the
\ndead man's family. (jun)<\/p>",
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