Woman shot in robbery attempt

Woman shot in robbery attempt

JAKARTA (JP): Security guards managed to foil a robbery
attempt by two robbers on a woman who was about to deposit Rp 690
million (US$78,400) in one of the banks located at the Graha
Irama building in Kuningan, South Jakarta, on Friday.

The victim, Tjan Shao Ping, 30, was shot in her hip and left
arm. She was rushed to Medistra Hospital on Jl. Gatot Subroto,
South Jakarta for treatment.

Witnesses said Tjan, a resident of Taman Sari district in West
Jakarta, had just stepped from her Kijang van at about 3:15 p.m.
when two men on a motorcycle stopped next to her and tried to
grab her suitcase.

When she resisted, one of the men shot Tjan in her hip. The
gunshot alerted security guards, who rushed to the scene.

The guards and the two robbers were involved in a gun fight
until the robbers ran out of bullets and ran to the building's
basement.

The security guards pursued them to the basement and caught M.
Ridwan, but the other robber managed to escape.

Ridwan, 32, a resident of Meruya Ilir, West Jakarta, was
detained at the Setia Budi Police station for questioning. The
police confiscated the motorcycle and a Smith & Wesson revolver
and several empty shells. (07)