A bomb victim dies at hospital

A bomb victim dies at hospital

JAKARTA (JP): One of 14 people injured by Wednesday's bomb
blast under the Slipi flyover, West Jakarta, died on Saturday
from serious wounds in his body and head at the Cipto
Mangunkusumo General Hospital (RSCM) emergency room.

The victim, Togar Budi Marpaung, a 23-year-old street vendor,
was one among four other people Samadi, 29 and Sarmin, 30, Andi
Lala, 16 and Romadon, 13, who were hospitalized for their very
serious injuries resulted from the bomb shrapnels.

An explosive device believed to be a bomb blasted under the
flyover in, injuring a total of 14 people, who all survived soon
after the blast.

Quoting witnesses, police assumed that the explosive device
was thrown by people in a truck crossing the flyover.

Togar's father Holomoan Marpaung, 50, told reporters at the
hospital's morgue said that he was not aware that his son was a
street vendor, one of the bomb victims.

"Police officers told me on Wednesday night that Togar was one
of 14 people injured in the bomb. I was surprised as they said
that my son was a street vendor operating at the Slipi
intersection area."

"A week after his mother Nurhaida Siahaan, 46, scolded him,
Togar, our second child of three, left home and stayed with his
fellow in Pondok Kopi, East Jakarta. That was I knew," Holomoan
recalled.

Togar's body would be buried at Rawamangun public cemetery in
East Jakarta today (Sunday). (01)