Governor will pay for campaign victims

Governor will pay for campaign victims

MEDAN, North Sumatra: T. Rizal Nurdin, the governor of North
Sumatra, promised on Thursday that all victims of violence or
accidents during the election campaign in North Sumatra province
would receive free medical treatment.

"It has become the responsibility of the government," he said.

The first day of campaigning in Medan claimed its first
victim. Andre Arial, 35, was electrocuted and died as he was
trying to hang a banner on a live electric wire for Dimardi
Abbas, a DPD candidate. -- JP