Security guard killed in Bekasi

Security guard killed in Bekasi

JAKARTA (JP): An on-duty security guard was bashed to death
and his attackers ransacked the office of cellophane tape company
PT Megavita in Tambun, Bekasi early yesterday morning.

The victim, Sutarjo, 30, a resident of Jl. Toyogiri, Jatimulya
in Bekasi died from severe head wounds and a loss of blood.

Sutarjo, who had worked at the company for six months, was
found laying on the floor of the security guards' room at 7 a.m.
by a colleague, Abdullah.

The incident is believed to have taken place after midnight.

"At midnight there were still some workers in the factory,"
Mulyana, an employee, said.

Tambun Police initially thought the incident was a robbery but
then nothing was found missing, Mulyana quoted a police officer
as saying.

"The attackers only smashed a window pane and turned the desks
upside down and damaged some filing cabinets but they didn't take
anything."

Mulyana rejected speculation that retaliation was the motive
behind the attack, following the dismissal of employees.

"This is a private company with a lot of workers so dismissal
is not a new thing but I don't know if there is anybody who is so
mad about it," he said.

Sutarjo died at Mitra Hospital in Bekasi. His body was sent to
Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital in Central Jakarta for a
postmortem examination. (emf)