Businessman injured, robbed of Rp 60m

Businessman injured, robbed of Rp 60m

JAKARTA (JP): A group of 10 armed robbers broke into a
businessman's house in Kelurahan Cipinang Besar Selatan in East
Jakarta Saturday morning and took away Rp 60 million (US$4,300)
in cash and a television set, a police officer said over the
weekend.

Armed with machetes, sickles and a gun, the thieves wounded
the fruit wholesaler vendor Badrul, 30, in the head and tied up
his wife and their three children, according to the officer who
asked for anonymity.

In a report to the police, Badrul's wife said that the
incident at her family's house on Jl. Panca Warga IV occurred at
about 3:30 a.m..

After securing the housewife and the three children, the
intruders pointed their weapons at Badrul and forced the
businessman to show them where he kept his cash and other
valuables, the officer said.

"When he tried to resist, one of the burglars swung his sickle
onto Badrul's head," he said.

Badrul's wife admitted that she was unable to help her husband
until after the robbers had fled.

"I had to wait until they were completely gone. I then
screamed for help and the neighbors started coming," she
recalled.

Her husband is being treated at the Mitra Keluarga Hospital in
Jatinegara.

Duren Sawit police detectives are still investigating the
case.

Beaten

A day earlier, a man was beaten to death by an angry mob after
allegedly trying to rob a woman in the early hours at the
Pulogadung inter-city bus station, also in East Jakarta.

The body was abandoned in the street and by the time the
police got there, the crowd had disappeared.

According to the supposed victim, identified as Sutinah, 26,
the man tried to grab her gold necklace just after she got off a
bus at around 3:15 a.m..

"She screamed for help and people rushed to her and punched
the suspect.

He was dying when we took them to the police hospital in
Kramat Jati," said an officer at the Pulogadung police
subprecinct.

After he died, the body of the alleged culprit was taken to
Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital for identification. (edt/ivy)