Driver questioned over minors' death

Driver questioned over minors' death

JAKARTA (JP): A bulldozer driver is being interrogated by the
West Jakarta police over the death of two boys in a housing
project site, a police source said Saturday.

Komarudin and Surya, both 10, were found in critical condition
Friday morning after residents in the Kalideres district heard
screams near a bulldozer.

The driver was leveling soil on a plot in the Taman Surya
housing project, located in Pegadungan subdistrict. The boys were
playing at the site.

When he heard the screams, the driver, Amin, immediately
alighted from the bulldozer to see what was happening.

The driver then saw the two boys were buried by soil he had
bulldozed.

Local inhabitants took Komarudin home but he died on the way.
Surya died at the Tangerang General Hospital.

Some residents became angry over the accident and attacked the
driver and burned two bulldozers.

"So far the driver is the only one we are questioning," the
source at the police precinct who requested anonymity said. (anr)