Clashes between rival RI immigrant gangs erupt for second time in

Clashes between rival RI immigrant gangs erupt for second time in
three days

Associated Press
Kuala Lumpur

Thirteen Indonesians were arrested and several others injured
when rival Indonesian immigrant gangs fought with long-bladed
knives near Kuala Lumpur, news reports said on Tuesday.

The clashes, which took place on late Monday night, were the
second within three days among gangs in the Gombak district of
Kuala Lumpur, where thousands of poor Indonesian immigrant
construction workers live.

Monday's fighting flared after a man armed with a traditional
long-bladed knife called a parang slashed a member of a rival
gang during an argument, the national news agency Bernama
reported.

Co-workers of the two men joined in the fighting and attacked
each other with sharp weapons, Bernama cited Abu Bakar Johor, a
senior police official, as saying.

More than 100 policemen were deployed to break up the
fighting. Abu Bakar said several of the workers were injured, at
least two of them seriously.

On Saturday, scores of Indonesian workers fought in the same
district. One man was killed and several houses torched in the
fray, which was apparently caused by a dispute over a woman.

It was not immediately known if Monday's and Saturday's
clashes involved members of the same gangs.

Migrant workers from neighboring Indonesia have long been the
backbone of the construction sector in Malaysia, one of Asia's
richest nations and a magnet for immigrants from the region's
poorer and less stable areas.