Three thieves killed

Three thieves killed

JAKARTA (JP): Three alleged thieves were killed, two of them
by police, in three separate incidents, a city police spokesman
said on Sunday.

City Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Anton Bahrul Alam said
34-year-old Asep was beaten to death by angry residents of Buaran
subdistrict in Pulogebang, East Jakarta who caught him redhanded
stealing a Kijang van bearing registration number B 1352 HU at
midnight on Saturday.

Earlier on Saturday East Jakarta police shot dead Endang, 22,
one of a four-member group of cellular phone suspect robbers, in
Kramat Jati market after he resisted arrest. The remaining three
members of the gang fled.

Anton said a Central Jakarta Police plainclothes officer
gunned down 19-year-old Holoan Manurung near Senen railway
station for ignoring an order to surrender. Holoan was chased for
snatching a gold necklace from a woman's neck.

In a related development, East Jakarta police detectives shot
a suspected heroin dealer, identified as Untung Suyanto, 36, on
his leg, when he was trying to escape police arrest.

East Jakarta police chief of detectives Adj. Comr. Agus
Irianto told reporters that Untung was shot outside his house on
Jl. Taruna in Pulogadung, East Jakarta, on Saturday afternoon.
(ylt)