Robber and victim share same hospital ward
Robber and victim share same hospital ward
JAKARTA (JP): Angry residents of Pekayon Jaya in Bekasi
Selatan mobbed a school student after he repeatedly stabbed a
taxi driver and tried to run off with his taxi on Jl. Pulau Sirih
Raya Selatan late on Thursday night.
Luckily, police came to save the robber, Seigh Niki, took both
the suspect and the victim, Sularno, to Bekasi Hospital. The
hospital has, surprisingly, placed both the robber and the victim
in the same emergency ward.
South Bekasi subprecinct police chief of the anti-riot unit
Second.Insp. M. Nababan said Niki, 18, took a taxi driven by
Sularno, 46, from Senayan east parking lot in Central Jakarta to
take him to Bekasi.
Upon reaching Jl. Pulau Sirih Raya Selatan, the suspect took
out a knife and held it to the neck of Sularno and threatened him
that if he didn't hand over all his day's earnings, he would die.
He refused Niki's order, so Niki stabbed him in his chest and
stomach and slashed his left hand with the knife.
As the driver still refused to hand over any money, Niki then
kicked him out of the taxi, causing the driver to be dragged for
about 10 meters by the taxi.
"I shouted for help, fortunately local residents rushed out of
their homes and chased the taxi," Sularno told The Jakarta Post,
while lying in a room at the hospital emergency ward.
"The suspect who escaped with my taxi hit an electricity pole
some 50 meters ahead. When he tried to back off, the taxi hit a
car behind it," he said.
Niki failed to escape with the taxi. Residents caught up with
him and started beating him badly until he collapsed. Police came
to his rescue.
"I was nervous. After I kicked the driver out the taxi he
shouted for help and I saw local residents chasing me. That's why
I hit the electricity pole," Niki, who was treated in the same
room as Sularno, told the Post.
Nababan said, to avoid angering Sularno's fellow drivers who
would visit him at the hospital, the suspect would be transferred
as soon as possible to South Bekasi subprecinct police
headquarters. (01)