Four people stabbed to death in Jakarta

Four people stabbed to death in Jakarta

JAKARTA (JP): Four men were stabbed to death in separate
incidents in the city and surrounding areas Saturday night while
Jakartans were celebrating friendship and goodwill with the
opening of the 19th SEA Games.

Three of the four bodies were identified as Yana Mulyana, 16,
Hendra, 28 and Hariyanto alias Henky, 27. The other victim,
believed to be 15 years old, was unidentified, an official at the
Cipto Mangunkusomo General Hospital's morgue said yesterday.

Yana Mulyana, a siomay (a steamed meat dumpling) trader, was
stabbed to death by an unidentified man after watching a film at
a mobile cinema in Pinang Ranti subdistrict in East Jakarta about
9:30 p.m, Mulyana's bother-in-law, Cece, said.

Cece said Mulyana, who rented a house on Jl. Pinang Ranti in
Makasar district, was about to go to a nearby market to buy
vegetables and ingredients to make the siomay after watching the
film.

"Witnesses told me, however, that Mulyana was stabbed because
he refused to give money to a hoodlum," Cece told The Jakarta
Post at the morgue yesterday.

He said the hoodlum stabbed Mulyana in the stomach.

Local residents tried to help Mulyana but he died on the way
to hospital, he said.

Mulyana will be buried in his hometown in Kuningan, West Java
today.

The second victim Hariyanto was stabbed in the chest in a
brawl among hoodlums on Jl. Kepanduan, Penjaringan district, in
North Jakarta.

An officer at Penjaringan Police subprecinct said he was found
dead close to his home.

The other victim, Hendra, was found dead in an area near the
University of Indonesia in Depok about 12:30 a.m, a Depok police
officer said.

He said Hendra was found with stab wounds to his neck and
body. Police are still investigating the case.

The unknown body was found with stab wounds to his stomach
in Gambir district, Central Jakarta, about 2 a.m yesterday. (jun)