Suspected robber shot four times

JAKARTA (JP): Morgue attendants were surprised on Sunday when they received the corpse of a suspected robber, allegedly shot to death by East Jakarta Police, with a total of four gunshot wounds to his body.

"The man was shot in the left side of the chest, the right shoulder, the stomach and the forehead... we don't understand these bullet wounds ourselves. It takes only one to kill a man," Pandji, a morgue attendant at the Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital, told The Jakarta Post.

Panji identified the dead man as Alsumri, 32, who was unemployed and lived in Jembatan subdistrict, Cipinang Besar Selatan district, East Jakarta.

The corpse reached the morgue at about 4 a.m. on Sunday, Pandji said.

Jakarta Police records have Alsumri on the wanted list issued by the East Jakarta Police for violent robbery and auto theft.

"He was shot to death at about 3 a.m. on Sunday by police detectives who were hot on his heels," Roni, an officer with the Jakarta Police Information Center, told reporters.

However, no East Jakarta Police officers were available for comment on the matter. (ylt)