Four people killed in separate incidents

JAKARTA (JP): Four men were killed in four separate incidents Monday morning in West Jakarta, South Jakarta and North Jakarta.

City Police Spokesman Lt. Col. E. Aritonang said Monday that in the first incident on Jl. Kampung Sawah, Cengkareng, West Jakarta an unemployed man was beaten to death by locals for breaking into a cigarette stall.

Aat, 25, and two accomplices identified only as Ron, 24, and Dn, 21, broke into the stall at about 2 a.m., said Aritonang.

"An officer of the roving security system patrolling the area saw what was happening and called out to the thieves," he said.

He said the officer then called locals to help when the men tried to escape.

Aritonang said Aat and Ron were caught and mobbed. "But Dn managed to escape," he said.

Aat, a resident of Jl. Kampung Kapuk, West Jakarta, died instantly in the attack, he said.

Ron was rushed to Kramatjati Police Hospital with serious injuries, he said.

Aritonang said police believed the men had burgled the same stall last month.

Still in West Jakarta, the body of a twenty-year-old man dumped on Jl. Kalianyar, in Tambora, West Jakarta. Police were treating it as a murder at this stage because he had bruises to his head, Aritonang said.

Witnesses told police that Amin's body was dumped on the street from a passing bajaj (three wheeled taxi) early in the morning.

Meanwhile, on Jl. Bukit Duri Tanjakan, in Tebet, South Jakarta a man died instantly after he was pushed off a train at about 8 a.m., Aritonang said.

"Feri, 22, got angry and pushed Hairudin, 23, out off the train because Hairudin had stepped on his foot," a police officer at South Jakarta Police precinct said. Feri is a private bank employee.

The officer said the passengers arrested Feri and took him to a nearby police station.

Yesterday, the police shot dead a man who had stolen a woman's gold necklace on Sunday night, in Penjagalan, North Jakarta. The man was shot because he had tried to resist arrest, Aritonang said.

He said police began a search for Ratno when Mirnawati reported the theft.

"The police shot Ratno, who was still in the area, after firing two warning shots," he said.

Ratno had been wanted by police for a long time.

The police have shot dead more than 20 people since January, all for resisting arrest.

Police shot and killed at least 46 people last year for the same reason. (jun/04)