39 street walkers escape detention

BOGOR, West Java (JP): Public order officers from the Bogor mayoralty rounded up 39 prostitutes and transvestites Monday night.

They were temporarily accommodated in a house in Sukamulya subdistrict, but fled after bribing an officer yesterday.

A mayoralty spokesman, Hari Harsono, who went to the house with reporters at 11 a.m. yesterday found the house empty.

"This morning they were still here before I left them to go to my office," said Hari, who witnessed Monday's operation.

He said the prostitutes and transvestites were meant to have Human Immunodeficiency Virus tests. (24/ind)