Lottery ticket vendor killed

Lottery ticket vendor killed

JAKARTA (JP): A vendor of lottery tickets was allegedly killed
on Friday night by a friend following a dispute a day earlier
over an amount of money lent to the suspected killer, the
victim's friends said on Wednesday.

Iwan Lubis, 32, was found dead with slash wounds to his neck
outside a military post under the Juanda flyover, near the
Istiqlal Grand Mosque in Central Jakarta.

A witness said Lubis was asleep when the alleged killer,
Husni, attacked the sleeping man with a dagger before running
across the street to a waiting motorcycle.

The witness, Yuli, said Lubis was probably drunk and did not
see his attacker approach. "I saw Husni leaving the post, but I
didn't suspect that he could have harmed Iwan (Lubis). I thought
he just wanted to wake Iwan up," Yuli said from Cipto
Mangunkusumo General Hospital.

Yuli said that he subsequently approached Lubis and
discovering the extent of the injuries ran onto the street
yelling: "Catch him! Catch Husni!" Police said that Husni, 35, a
resident of Tanah Tinggi was still on the run.

According to Rojak, one of the victim's friends, Lubis of
Karang Mulya in Ciledug, Tangerang, was unemployed, but sometimes
acted as a loan shark to support his wife and three children.
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