Worker crushed by steamroller

JAKARTA (JP): A road construction worker has been crushed to death by a steamroller driven by a friend in the East Parking Lot, Senayan, Central Jakarta.

Lasman, the victim, was asleep on the road he and his friends were repairing early yesterday morning when his colleague Azis decided to move the steamroller to another place.

Azis told police that after traveling a few meters he noticed that the steamroller was running unsmoothly. He said he thought the machine was running over a heap of garbage or soil. He was horrified to see that the body of Lasman, who hailed from the same town of Banyumas, Central Java, had been broken under the steamroller's steel wheel.

Azis screamed hysterically before other workers came, the Terbit evening daily reported yesterday.