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