Police looking for suspect in Soekarno-Hatta Airport shooting

Police looking for suspect in Soekarno-Hatta Airport shooting

JAKARTA (JP): Police are looking for at least one person
involved in a shooting incident at Soekarno-Hatta International
Airport on Wednesday, an officer said last night.

City Police spokesman Lt. Col. E. Aritonang said his office
was trying to collect more information to help clarify the
incident.

"We have questioned some eyewitnesses. But we still need more
information on the case," he told The Jakarta Post.

The motive for the attack was not known.

Aritonang declined to say whether his office had identified
the shooters.

"We are still investigating the case," was all he would say.

Two men were wounded in the shooting incident at about 7:30
p.m. Wednesday in the airport's Terminal F arrival hall.

Police identified the two victims as Isren Saat, 52, an
executive at Garuda Indonesia airline's Tokyo office, and a
Japanese expatriate Konishi, 47.

The two had arrived on a flight from Tokyo.

Isren, a resident of Jatibening, Bekasi, was shot in the nose,
while Konishi had a shoulder wound.

The two have received medical treatment at Pluit hospital in
North Jakarta.

Aritonang said the police were examining several pieces of
evidence found at the scene, including the projectile which was
taken out of Konichi's shoulder.

Konichi is the second foreigner to fall victim to crime in the
capital this year.

Another Japanese, Takeshi Yamamoto, 32, was stabbed to death
in an armed robbery in South Jakarta a week earlier.

He and compatriot expatriate Okada, 49, were robbed by a taxi
driver and his accomplices in Sawangan, West Java. Okada survived
with a minor stab injury.

The suspects are still at large.

The two Japanese got into the taxi outside a karaoke bar in
Blok M, South Jakarta. (cst)