Road victim's body thrown onto garbage site

Road victim's body thrown onto garbage site

BEKASI (JP): A Koasi public transportation minivan plying the
Bekasi-Bantar Gebang route allegedly hit a pedestrian on Tuesday
night on Jl Raya Narogong, Bojong Menteng, Bekasi, then
transported the dying victim to a nearby garbage disposal site.

Suman, 38, a local resident who saw the accident said that the
victim, Sandi, was crossing the road when the Koasi minivan was
passing by at high speed and hit him hard throwing his body
several meters.

"A group of us, local people, rushed to help the victim, while
some others ran after the van," he told The Jakarta Post.

He said the driver and his assistant, who looked scared, got
out of the van and requested residents not to attack them and
vowed to immediately take the dying victim to hospital.

"Since the driver and his assistant promised to be responsible
for the victim's medical treatment we believed them, we let them
take the victim alone without holding his identity," he
regretted.

"Maybe the victim died on the way to hospital and the driver
and his assistant panicked. When they saw the trash disposal
site, they decided to throw the victim's body onto it and then
escaped," he added.

He said an ojek (motorcycle taxi) driver, Maryoto, who was
accidentally passing by, saw the two men lifting a body out of
the van and throwing it onto the garbage site.

The suspicious ojek driver then rushed to report them to
Bekasi Police, he said.

Bekasi Police chief Sr. Comr. Djoko Susilo said that he had
ordered several officers to find and catch the missing Koasi
driver and his assistant, though as of Wednesday evening, they
had yet to find the suspects. (01)