Food vendor stabbed to death

Food vendor stabbed to death

JAKARTA (JP): A food vendor was stabbed to death by three men after the victim refused to give them any money in a scuffle in Pondok Gede, Bekasi, some 30 km east of the capital, on Sunday night.

Sources at the Pondok Gede police sub-precint told The Jakarta Post yesterday that the victim was Riswan Nasution, 31, who was killed by three men known as notorious hoodlums in the area. The sources said the police had apprehended one of the three suspects, while the other two were still at large.

"It's only a matter of time before we catch the other two suspects because we know their identities," one police officer said.

According to Darwis Nasution, one of the deceased's relatives, the hoodlums asked Riswan to give them some money. But Riswan refused the demand and offered resistance when the men produced knives and mobbed him. Darwis did not specify the sum of money demanded by the suspects.

The men then brutally stabbed a helpless Riswan who suffered five stab wounds to the left arm, stomach, back and chest. Riswan was immediately rushed to hospital, but died on the way, Darwis said.

Riswan, a resident of Jl. Jati Makmur, Pondok Gede, is survived by a wife, who is three months pregnant, and two children.(04)