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