Police fatally shoot runaway detainee

JAKARTA: Bekasi Police shot on Monday night a man identified as Iwan alias Bewok, as they tried to recapture him and to take him back to the detention cell from which he escaped earlier on Monday.

The detainee was shot in the right thigh in front of his house in Cikarang, Bekasi. He died later in the Sukanto Police Hospital in Kramat Jati, East Jakarta.

The police claimed Iwan was trying to jump out of the window of his house, ignoring two warning shots. -- JP