Two women injured in mysterious shootings
Two women injured in mysterious shootings
JAKARTA (JP): Police are scrambling to determine the culprits
and allay public fear over two mysterious shooting incidents
which occurred at the same time on Thursday morning.
City police spokesman Lt. Col. Edward Aritonang identified the
two women injured as Dewi Yulianti, 24, who was shot as she
talked with friends at a hotel in Sunter, North Jakarta, and
Nyimas Lesmana, 29, wounded on a busy street off Jl. Raya Ciracas
in East Jakarta.
Surgery is planned for Dewi at Griya Medika Hospital in Sunter
to remove a bullet from her back.
Nyimas, who was wounded in her right shoulder, was discharged
from Pasar Rebo Hospital shortly after undergoing treatment.
Aritonang said on Friday investigations had been launched into
the shootings.
"We'll study the cases thoroughly to quiet public fear," he
said.
He declined to identify the type of bullets.
"Our investigation is still underway."
According to Aritonang, the shootings of both Dewi, an
employee of a private company, and Nyimas, a housewife, took
place at around 9 a.m.
Dewi, a resident of Pondok Kelapa II in Duren Sawit in East
Jakarta, was chatting with two of her friends on the balcony of
the fifth floor of the Danau Sunter hotel when she was shot.
The three checked in to the hotel on Wednesday.
"Witnesses (Dewi's friends) said they heard a shot from a
distance, but suddenly they saw Dewi fall down with blood running
through the back of her shirt," Aritonang said.
Questioned by the police, the hotel's security officers
professed to knowing nothing about the shooting, he said.
Nyimas was shot when she was on her way home on Jl. Raya
Sentex in the Ciracas area.
Bystanders and motorists, who witnessed the incident, said
they saw Nyimas suddenly collapse.
Initially, the people thought she had fainted, but they
realized she had been shot when they attempted to help her and
saw blood, Aritonang said.
"The road is always busy and from our preliminary
investigation we obtained information that some people also heard
a shot but no one knew the direction it came from," he said.
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