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        "id": 1131429,
        "msgid": "man-sets-fire-to-shop-sisters-die-1447893297",
        "date": "2005-09-19 00:00:00",
        "title": "Man sets fire to shop, sisters die",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Man sets fire to shop, sisters die The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Police in Pontianak have arrested a man for setting fire to his mother's shophouse, which left two of his sisters dead, Antara has reported. The fire, which occurred early on Sunday, also razed seven other shophouses, including one owned by the man himself, located in the business area near the Batu Layang bus terminal in the West Kalimantan capital.",
        "content": "<p>Man sets fire to shop, sisters die<\/p>\n<p>The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n<p>Police in Pontianak have arrested a man for setting fire to his<br>\nmother's shophouse, which left two of his sisters dead, Antara<br>\nhas reported.<\/p>\n<p>The fire, which occurred early on Sunday, also razed seven<br>\nother shophouses, including one owned by the man himself, located<br>\nin the business area near the Batu Layang bus terminal in the<br>\nWest Kalimantan capital.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspect, identified as Ahi alias Bud, 25,<br>\nintentionally set the fire in a rage following the refusal of his<br>\nmother, Tham Nyiuk Kim, to give him Rp 2 million the previous<br>\nday. Ahi said he needed the money to pay for medical treatment<br>\nfor his typhoid.<\/p>\n<p>North Pontianak Police chief Adj. Comr. S. Poernomo said the<br>\nenraged Ahi poured kerosene onto chairs on the second floor of<br>\nthe shophouse that his mother and sisters resided in. He then set<br>\nthe TV set on fire and fled the building, leaving his mother<br>\nstruggling to douse the flames.<\/p>\n<p>\"I did not mean to burn the premises, but I admit that I<br>\nleft the house without trying to extinguish the fire,\" said Ahi,<br>\na fruitmonger.<\/p>\n<p>His sisters, Silvia, 23, and Novita, 18, were trapped in their<br>\nbedroom. The TV set that Ahi set fire to was located in front of<br>\ntheir room.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested Ahi hours after the incident in Sungai Piyuh<br>\noutside of Pontianak. He is facing a charge of negligence causing<br>\ndeath, which carries a maximum jail sentence of 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Poernomo said that Ahi had a grudge against his mother since<br>\n2001, when he threatened to burn down her shophouse for what he<br>\nclaimed was an unfair inheritance. Ahi only received a shophouse,<br>\nwhile his elder sisters were given luxury houses.<\/p>\n<p>Ahi's parents have 12 children.<\/p>\n<p>Silvia and Novita were buried after autopsies were performed<br>\non their remains.<\/p>",
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