Five security guards robbed

BOGOR: A group of men, one armed with a pistol, robbed the office of state-owned electricity company PT PLN in Jonggol, Sukamaju village, here early on Monday, taking some Rp 650,000 (US$65) belonged to five security guards.

One of the victims, Usman, told the police that some 10 men broke into the office at about 3:30 a.m. by jumping out the gate and cutting the chain of its locked door. One of them was armed with a gun.

"I was sleeping," he said, adding that one of the robbers woke him up.

Like his other four colleagues, he was then tied up with his own shoe strings, while his mouth was plugged with some cloths.

The criminals also took a handy talky and several keys of cars and motorcycles. Strangely, they did not took the vehicles away. -JP