Police officers attacked

Police officers attacked

MEDAN, North Sumatra: One police officer was shot and another
badly beaten in two separate incidents in North Sumatra on
Wednesday night.

"The condition of Brigadier Haris Nasution is critical. He was
shot in the back and the bullet pierced his body," said Medan
Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Bagus Kurniawan on Thursday.

He said an unidentified man on a motorcycle shot Haris late on
Wednesday night in the North Sumatra capital.

Several hours earlier, First Insp. N. Perangin-angin was
beaten by five people as he checked cars in the North Sumatra
town of Binjai.

The incidents come three days after robbers killed a security
guard and a bank driver at a Bank Lippo branch in Medan. A third
victim, security guard Juni Purba, died on Thursday in the
hospital, where he was being treated for a gunshot wound to the
head. -- JP