Police shoot dead two suspected thieves

Police shoot dead two suspected thieves

JAKARTA (JP): Two suspected robbers were shot dead, one was
wounded and two others arrested in separate raids in South
Jakarta and Tangerang, West Java, over the weekend, police said.

City police spokesman Lt Col. E. Aritonang said the five
suspects were responsible for three different robberies.

"Three of the five suspects were shot because they resisted
arrest," he said.

He identified the two dead suspects as Hidayat and Abdullah,
the wounded suspect as Ali Subhan and the two arrested suspects
as Sutarman and Rukmandar.

Aritonang said that Hidayat, Ali, Sutarman and Rukmandar were
believed to be members of a group of robbers who last Monday
night robbed two houses, one of which was owned by an Indian
couple, on Jl. Margasatwa Raya in Pondok Labu, South Jakarta.

In the robbery, he said, the group wounded the wife of Indian
national Ravendra Moona and made off with Rp 550,000 in cash,
jewelry, a mobile phone, a wallet and some electronic equipment.

The spokesman said the other dead suspect, Abdulllah, had been
wanted by the police ever since he robbed a resident of Kronjo,
Tangerang, and made off with Rp 1.1 million in November last
year.

He said Abdullah was found early Friday while sleeping in a
small prayer house near his home in Kronjo subdistrict of
Tangerang.

"He liked to sleep at the prayer house more than at his own
house. That's why we caught him there," he said.

Aritonang said Abdullah was shot because he tried to attack
the officers and yelled "robber" at them to make local residents
suspicious of them. (cst)