Woman murdered in fresh attack in C. Sulawesi<\/p>\n
Eva C. Komandjaja, The Jakarta Post\/Jakarta<\/p>\n
A cosmetics salesgirl was attacked and murdered on Friday
\nmorning by three machete-wielding men in Palu, Central Sulawesi,
\nin yet another grisly terror attack on young females in the tense
\nprovince.<\/p>\n
Twenty-year-old Supriyanti -- Yanti to those close to her --
\nwas attacked by three men riding a motorcycle. She was also on a
\nmotorcycle with two friends.<\/p>\n
Yanti's friend Anca, 23, who was driving, managed to avoid
\ninjury, while Yanti and her friend Evi, 20, received full blows
\nfrom the machetes.<\/p>\n
Yanti suffered a fatal laceration to her neck, while Evi's arm
\nwas nearly hacked off by the attackers.<\/p>\n
After the men sped away, Anca took his seriously injured
\nfriends to Wirabuana hospital, but they were not admitted as
\nhospital personnel barred them from entering on the grounds that
\n\"the wounds were too serious\".<\/p>\n
He later managed to get both Evi and Yanti to Undata Hospital,
\nbut Yanti died on the way due to blood loss.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the Central Sulawesi Police department,
\nAdj. Sr. Comr. Rais Adam, said as quoted by Antara that
\ninvestigators had questioned five witnesses about the incident
\nand were still looking for the perpetrators.<\/p>\n
Rais refused to speculate on whether the incident was a random
\nstreet crime or related to the other recent terror attacks in the
\nprovince.<\/p>\n
On Oct. 29, three Christian schoolgirls -- Theresia Morangke,
\n15, Alfita Poliwo, 17, and Yarni Sambue, 15, -- were beheaded by
\na group of men with machetes as they walked to school in Poso.<\/p>\n
Just over a week after that attack, two female students --
\nIvon Maganti, 17, and Siti Nuraini, 17, -- were victims of a
\ndrive-by shooting while sitting in front of a house.<\/p>\n
National Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Soenarko said on Friday
\nthat the police had arrested one man named Irfan Masiro, a
\nsecurity guard at Poso Hospital, in relation to the beheading
\ncase.<\/p>\n
\"We have named Irfan a suspect because we found that he owned
\na machete with a bloodstain that matches one of the victim's
\n(Theresia's) blood type,\" Soenarko said.<\/p>\n
So far this is the only suspect detained in the beheading
\ncase. Irfan is one of five men previously questioned by the
\nlocal military for alleged involvement in the triple murder. The
\nother four were released last week due to \"a lack of evidence\".
\nDespite the release by the military, the police decided to
\ncontinue questioning the group.<\/p>\n
\"We're still questioning two witnesses -- Sudarmanto and
\nLusiana -- because they were actually in possession of Irfan's
\nmachete and we want to know whether they're related to this
\ncase,\" Soenarko said.<\/p>\n
As for the drive-by shooting, Soenarko claimed that the police
\nhad arrested four suspects, identified as David Mando (a
\nmotorcycle taxi driver), Ismet Oskar (a farmer), Zaenal (a
\nteacher) and Aksan (a trader).<\/p>\n
However, Soenarko did not elaborate on the what the roles of
\neach person might have been in the incident, as a result of which
\nboth girls are still in the hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n
Poso is a religiously divided town, which saw over 1,000
\nkilled during a Christian-Muslim conflict in 2000 and 2001.<\/p>",
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