The Jakarta Post, 11/16/2003 4:10:19 PM
Three dead in restive Poso, two suspects of attacks arrested
JAKARTA (AFP): Three people were killed in the latest violence in Indonesia's restive
Poso district in Central Sulawesi while two suspected assailants in a bloody Oct. 12
attack on three villages were captured alive, police said Sunday.
"We just received a report that the bodies of two men, both with gunshot wounds,
were found in an car in Poso Pesisir," Brig. Usman of the district police in Poso said
by telephone.
He said the identity of the victims or the circumstance of their death were yet
unknown.
Usman said that on Saturday, police raiding a house where people suspected of
having taken part in the Oct. 12 shootings that killed 10 people in three villages near
Poso town, shot one suspect dead.
The man, identified as Hamid, was shot while trying to escape arrest, Usman said,
adding that two other suspects were arrested alive.
He said that the relatives of Hamid have come to the district police to protest the
shooting, alleging that the man was shot without warning.
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