Maluku residents breathe easy after riot rumors prove unfounded<\/p>\n
AMBON, Maluku (JP): Residents here were relieved on Thursday
\nwhen rumors of large-scale riots did not materialize. Security
\npersonnel had erected barbed wire barricades on both sides of the
\nstreets, ready to be moved when needed.<\/p>\n
Ambon hardly saw any activity and schools were closed. Few
\ngovernment offices opened, including military facilities.<\/p>\n
Throughout Wednesday night residents were terrified by
\nsporadic sounds of homemade bombs and guns heard across the city,
\nbut there were no attacks.<\/p>\n
However, many were shocked by the finding of a mutilated body
\nof a 13 year old girl, Franseska Isak. Her body was found on
\nThursday by police in the Galunggung area and brought to the
\nHailusi General Hospital. She was buried on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Relatives said she boarded a public transportation vehicle on
\nWednesday, one of the few operating, and that she was with her
\nfamily who had arrived by the KM Rinjani ship from Jakarta.<\/p>\n
\"She suddenly went out on her own,\" a relative said.<\/p>\n
Passengers disembarking from ships in Ambon are advised to be
\naccompanied by security personnel.<\/p>\n
Police said they had not arrested anyone in relation to the
\ncrime.<\/p>\n
Separately, two passengers on the way to Jakarta from Ambon
\nsustained stab wounds on Thursday when their ship, KM Bukit
\nSiguntang, arrived in Bau-bau, Southeast Sulawesi.<\/p>\n
Both were volunteers delivering contributions for refugees on
\nTual island, where thousands had fled to after clashes this year.<\/p>\n
Nona, another volunteer assisting in the distribution of the
\naid, said her stabbed colleagues were Riki Raubun and Karel
\nNgarbingan. The motive for the attack is still unknown.<\/p>\n
\"The contributions were from expatriates from Maluku in the
\nNetherlands, and they were for everyone, both Muslims and
\nChristians,\" she said.<\/p>\n
Based on telephone contacts with the victims, the attackers,
\nshe said, \"had apparently followed them from Tual\". (48\/anr)<\/p>",
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