Police still searching for cause of deadly theater fire

Police still searching for cause of deadly theater fire

YOGYAKARTA (JP): Police have yet to discover the cause of a
fire which ravaged the Regent theater and killed 14 people,
including two Norwegian nationals, on Thursday.

Yogyakarta Police chief Lt. Col. Dadang Sutrisno said on
Saturday that his office still had no clue as to the cause of the
fire.

"The police forensic team from Semarang is still investigating
the fatal fire. What we are doing now is probing into the case
with facts we found at the site," Dadang said.

Reliable sources say that a team from the National Police
Headquarters in Jakarta will be sent to Yogyakarta to further
investigate the incident.

Fire gutted the Wijaya building, which housed the Regent
theater, late Thursday night.

On Saturday four more corpses, victims of the fire which were
kept at the Sardjito General Hospital, were identified as Norma
Puspasari, alias Puspa, 28, of Semarang origin; Maria Laura
Rejeki, alias Yayuk, 21, also from Semarang; and Mugihadi, a
Yogyakarta resident.

"We still have two other unidentified bodies in the hospital,"
Sri Wahyuni Werdiningsih, spokesperson for the hospital, said on
Saturday.

The bodies of Marit Namtvedt and Terje Sandblost, the two
Norwegians killed in the fire, were flown to the Norwegian
Embassy in Jakarta on Sunday.

The Norwegians were students of Gadjah Mada University.
Another Norwegian, Bente Robertsen, survived the fire.

Sri Prapti Wahyuni, spokeswoman for Bethesda Hospital, where
Robertsen was treated, said Gadjah Mada University had arranged
the required documents on the dead Norwegians. (23/44/sur)