Police shoot, kill three criminals<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Police shot dead three suspected street bandits
\nin the early hours of Monday, bringing to 11 the number of
\nalleged criminals killed by the police since a crackdown on crime
\nwas launched late last month.<\/p>\n
Jakarta Police spokesman Lt. Col. Edward Aritonang said the
\nsuspected criminals were all shot dead after they attacked police
\nofficers and attempted to resist arrest.<\/p>\n
\"The officers fired warning shots after the criminals were
\ncaught red-handed. They ignored the shots and tried to attack the
\npolicemen,\" Aritonang told reporters on Monday.<\/p>\n
Two of the three alleged criminals were shot dead in North
\nJakarta, while the third died in East Jakarta, he said.<\/p>\n
The North Jakarta victims were identified as Parno, 27, and
\nTaryo, 25. Both were residents of the capital.<\/p>\n
The two were part of a gang of six men spotted taking money at
\nknife point from a 25-year-old woman who was traveling on a
\npublic minivan in the Teluk Gong area of North Jakarta at about
\n11:45 p.m. on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
When the officers intervened and asked the gang to surrender,
\nthey sprinted of in different directions.<\/p>\n
Parno and Taryo were shot dead and three of their accomplices
\nwere detained. The arrested men were identified as Ahmad Sofyan,
\n28, Daskub, 31, and Syamsudin, 20.<\/p>\n
\"The sixth member of the gang is still at large,\" Aritonang
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
Police believe the gang were responsible for a number of
\nrobberies committed on public vehicles plying the Jl. Teluk Naga-
\nCengkareng route in West Jakarta.<\/p>\n
Police seized two machetes, one knife, a gold ring and Rp
\n40,000 (US$5) in cash from the suspects, Aritonang said.<\/p>\n
The man shot dead in East Jakarta was identified as Sawira
\nalias Maman, 25.<\/p>\n
Police said that Maman allegedly grabbed Rp 100,000 from a
\nfemale street vendor in front of the Ramayana department store in
\nKramat Jati.<\/p>\n
Maman was shot once in the back and died at the scene of the
\ncrime.<\/p>\n
Amid growing public outrage at the rising tide of crime in the
\ncapital, the Jakarta Police backed up by troops from the Jakarta
\nMilitary Command launched a belated crackdown on the city's
\nunderworld on Nov. 23.<\/p>\n
Patrols of police and soldiers have since been assigned to
\nguard certain street junctions and stretches of toll road
\nthroughout the capital.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, another suspected criminal identified as
\nBaharudin was shot dead after he attacked police officers with a
\nsword.<\/p>\n
Aritonang said that Baharudin was part of a gang suspected of
\nrobbing a jewelry counter in a Matahari department store in
\nCipulir, South Jakarta.<\/p>\n
\"The gang fled when police first arrived on the scene, but
\nthen Baharudin ran back toward the officers brandishing a sword,\"
\nhe said.<\/p>\n
Also late on Saturday, police shot and wounded a vagrant
\nsuspected of robbing a woman on Jl. Latumeten in West Jakarta.<\/p>\n
The man, identified as Sunaryo, was shot once in the buttock
\nand was taken to Soekanto Police Hospital in East Jakarta for
\nmedical treatment.<\/p>\n
\"Police confiscated a machete and Rp 16,000 he was believed to
\nhave taken from the victim,\" Aritonang said. (emf)<\/p>",
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