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. (01)