Murder suspect wanted

Murder suspect wanted

JAKARTA (JP): City detectives are looking for a man believed to have fatally stabbed a young housemaid in an evening robbery in Pondok Bambu, East Jakarta on Saturday.

"The identity of the suspect, who has left town, is very clear to us," City Police Chief Maj. Gen. Dibyo Widodo said yesterday.

The maid, identified as Sofiah, 28, was found dead in her employer's house on Jl. Duta in the BPS housing complex at 9 p.m. She had been stabbed 16 times.

Her employer, an official at the National Agency of Statistics (BPS), was out of town on holiday.

There was Rp 2 million and US$300 missing from the house.

A knife believed to have been used in the killing was found by the police at the scene of crime. (bsr)