Four people killed in separate incidents

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)