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Thu, 04/15/2010 - 16:12
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POLICE : 60 VICTIMS OF PRIOK VIOLENCE STILL IN HOSPITAL



Jakarta, April 15 (ANTARA) - Sixty people who were injured in the Tanjung Priok violence, Wednesday, are currently still being treated in three different hospitals in Jakarta, according to a Jakarta police spokesman.

"According to the latest information, there are still around 60 people being hospitalized in hospitals," Senior Commissioner Boy Rafli Amar, head of the Jakarta Police's public relations department, said here, Thursday.

They are being treated at Koja Hospital (North Jakarta), Tarakan Hospial and Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital (Central Jakarta).

The Priok violence caused 134 people to be hospitalized due to serious and light injuries. The victims consist of 10 police officers, 69 public order officers, and 55 civilians.

Three public order officers identified as M. Tajudin, W. Soepono and Israel Jaya, were killed in the conflict between public order officers and local residents.

Boy Rafli Amar, however, said only two officers were dead according to official information collected until Wednesday evening.

The latest fatality was Israel Jaya who died Thursday while receiving intensive medical treatment at Tarakan Hospital.

Besides human victims, 46 vehicles belonging to public order officers and the police had been burned in the standoff involving thousands of people resisting the violent eviction attempt at a sacred memorial complex in Koja, North Jakarta, Wednesday.

The violence broke out on Wednesday morning when about a thousand public order officers (Satpol PP) marched to the graveyard complex built on land belonging to port company PT Pelindo II where there was a former tomb of respected Muslim scholar, Habib Hasan bin Muhammnad Al Hadad also known as Mbah Priok, who spread Islam in North Jakarta in the 18th century.

According to the Jakarta regional government, the public order guards were mobilized to the complex to demolish illegal buildings erected within the complex.

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