Police hunt maid's killers

Police hunt maid's killers

JAKARTA (JP): Police are still hunting the four robbers who
murdered a housemaid Wednesday and kidnapped two women in Pluit,
North Jakarta, an officer said yesterday.

City Police Spokesman Lt. Col. E. Aritonang said the police
had already identified the suspects.

"So far, the police are only naming the four men as suspects.
But there are possibilities that other people, particularly those
who knew the victims, could also be named as suspects," Aritonang
told The Jakarta Post.

The housemaid killed by the four men was identified as Ati,
while the kidnapped women were Ati's employers Linda, 47, and
Fung Yu Moi, 70.

According to Aritonang, Ati was killed because she saw the
robbers jump over the fence into the house's front garden.

"The robbers slashed her in her waist, stomach and ear with
sickles soon after they approached the panicking Ati, who was
screaming for help," Aritonang said.

He said that the robbers went into the house and tied up three
of Linda's children in the shower.

The four men then forced Linda to give them her money,
jewelry, and mobile phones.

Aritonang said that the men later took away Linda and her
mother Fung Yu Moi in Linda's car and left them on the street in
Lemahabang, Bekasi, West Java.

Aritonang said that Linda did not make a phone call to her
home as was reported by many newspapers yesterday. The reality
was that she asked passersby to call the local police.

"The Lemahabang police then contacted the Penjaringan police
to check Linda's house, while Linda's children also reported the
incident to the Penjaringan police," Aritonang said.

Aritonang said that Linda and her mother were unharmed and
returned home safely on Thursday. (27)