Mobile phone vendors robbed

Mobile phone vendors robbed

BEKASI: Two mobile phone vendors were robbed in separate
incidents on Monday and Tuesday by robbers armed with sickles,
who made off with Rp 15 million (US$1,632) and Rp 12 million
worth of goods, respectively.

Police said on Wednesday that Akhin, 40, was taking an
employee, 21-year-old Ngarawati, home on his motorcycle after
selling mobile phones and refill vouchers in Bantar Gebang on
Tuesday evening.

At Ngarawati's house, four robbers on two motorcycles
surrounded the victims and grabbed a bag containing mobile
phones, vouchers and cash. They slashed Akhin across his head and
arm with a sickle before fleeing.

Akhin was taken to Mitra Keluarga Hospital by residents.

On Monday, Mohammad Jafar Sidik, 22, a resident of Kongsi,
Cikarang, was robbed in a similar manner.

The mobile phone seller was passing through Tanjung Baru
village in Cikarang on his way home on Monday at about 9:30 p.m.
when four robbers on two motorcycles attacked him. Sidik's arm
was slashed with a sickle when he resisted the robbers, who fled
with his bag. -- Antara