Burglars injure housewife with hydrochloric acid

Burglars injure housewife with hydrochloric acid

JAKARTA (JP): A housewife was severely wounded after she was
splashed with hydrochloric acid by two alleged robbers who broke
into her house in Tambun subdistrict, Bekasi, early Saturday.

The two robbers, who entered the house by breaking its front
window, managed to take Rp 6 million in cash from the house after
paralyzing her husband.

The housewife, identified as Ambar, was treated at the
Intensive Care Unit of the Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital. She
explained that she awoke in the morning to loud sounds from the
robbers entering the house.

The two immediately entered her bedroom and stood on the left
of the bed in which her husband, Karnadi, her youngest child,
Tirta, and she slept.

When she cried for help, one of the robbers poured the liquid
on her.

She said her eyes became extremely painful, so that "I could
not recognize the two men, whose faces were covered with cloth".

She said she heard the two men attack her husband before she
fell unconscious.

The acid turned the victim's skin on her face, part of her
breast and neck dark brown.

Ambar was later rushed by her relatives to the hospital for
immediate treatment.

The two robbers reportedly stole Rp 6 million in cash from a
drawer of a wardrobe in the room.

"I didn't hear a motorist or any car sounds when the robbers
left the house," said Saidi, one of Ambar's son-in-laws.

Saidi said his parents were among the rich in the area.

Karnadi built several houses adjacent to his house to enable
his children and their families to stay close to him, he said.

Saidi said the Rp 6 million money was the result of a sale of
the family's motorcycle. It was to be used to buy a pick-up truck
worth Rp 20 million to expand the family's business.

Saidi believed that the robbers were people from nearby
neighborhoods who were familiar with the family as they knew
exactly where the family put their money. (01)