ABC AUSTRALIA, 31/03/2004 18:53:00
Christian minister shot dead in Indonesia
A Christian minister has been shot dead in front of his wife in the Poso district of
Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province.
He is the third Christian to be gunned down in the region this week.
Police say the minister, 25, was shot in the chest at his rural house, about 50
kilometres west of Poso town, when he answered a knock on his front door.
Police say it is too early to make any links between the shooting and two other
attacks on Christians this week.
A female lecturer, 41, at a university in Poso town was shot and wounded by two men
as she walked towards her car on the campus earlier this week.
Separately, the body of a man, 37, was found on Sunday in Poso's Kawua area.
Up to 1,000 people were killed in Muslim-Christian battles in Poso in 2000, before the
government brokered a peace deal in 2001.
However, sporadic violence continues.
31/03/2004 18:53:00 | ABC Radio Australia News
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