Teenager killed over cigarettes

Teenager killed over cigarettes

SEMARANG, Central Java: Two Semarang teenagers stabbed a fellow
high school student to death over the weekend after the boy
refused to give them some cigarettes, police said on Monday.

The two boys, identified as Eko Supriyanto, 18, and Niko Wira
Andika, 17, were named as suspects in the slaying on Sunday of
Arif Kuswanto, 16, in Semarang, the capital of Central Java.

"We're hunting down two other boys suspected of being involved
in the murder," said Semarang police spokesman Arif Busi Winofa.

He said police believed the boys, who are students at
Ronggolawe secondary school, killed fellow student Kuswanto after
he refused to share his cigarettes with them. -- Antara