Police conduct door-to-door search

Police conduct door-to-door search

AMBON, Maluku: Maluku Police conducted a door-to-door search
on Wednesday in three subdistricts in Central Maluku, following
mysterious armed attacks in the area.

Police officers seized various types of rifles, ammunition and
homemade bombs from local residents, including 41 bullets, eight
homemade rifles and three homemade bombs, during the search.

Maluku Police deputy chief Sr. Comr. Bambang Suaidi said two
people were attacked and wounded last week in Namaea.

Such attacks have been common in Maluku following sectarian
clashes between 1999 and 2002 in the province, which left some
6,000 people dead and forced thousands of others to take refuge
in safer places. -- JP