Private company driver shot in midday robbery
Private company driver shot in midday robbery
JAKARTA (JP): A serious armed robbery took place when four
people snatched US$10,000 and Rp 187 million in cash from private
firm employees, shooting one of the victims in the process, at an
intersection on Jl. Kebon Sirih near Tanah Abang market in
Central Jakarta on Wednesday.
Riding two Yamaha RX King motorcyles, the robbers sandwiched
the Grand Civic sedan which was carrying the employees of PT
Jayanti. One of the robbers, who wore a jacket, fired his gun to
break the nearside front window and snatched a suitcase
containing the money out of the car.
The bullet hit the hip of Suhaimi, the company's driver who at
the time of the incident allowed his colleague from the financial
department, Abun, to drive.
The traffic light was at red when the robbery took place in
broad daylight.
"Thank God, the bullet only struck my hip. I don't know what,
if they had shot another part of by body," 51-year old Suhaimi
told The Jakarta Post at the emergency care unit of Cipto
Mangunkusumo General Hospital after undergoing surgery to remove
the bullet.
He said he and Abun were driving back from Bank Central Asia
on Jl. Wahid Hasyim, where they had withdrawn the money.
"The robbers had apparently followed us since we left the
bank," said Suhaimi, a resident of Jl. Pembangunan V, Central
Jakarta.
Scared, he said he had asked the robbers not to shoot.
There were at least two shots fired, with one of the bullets
breaking the window, according to Suhaimi.
Nobody in the area moved to help the victims until the robbers
made their escape undeterred.
Gambir Police chief Comr. Nurhadi said the police had yet to
identify the robbers.
"We are investigating the robbery," he said.
The biggest robbery ever this year took place in mid-March
when a group of armed men who posed as couriers robbed the house
of Sudjono, chairman of the Indonesian Bar Association (Ikadin),
in Depok, south of here, making away with valuables and cash
worth Rp 3 billion (US$300,000). (01)