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US citizen killed in Medan, Japanese found dead in Bekasi
The National Police are investigating the separate deaths of two foreign nationals in Medan, North Sumatra, and Bekasi, West Java
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he National Police are investigating the separate deaths of two foreign nationals in Medan, North Sumatra, and Bekasi, West Java.
US citizen Samuel Hyein, 28, died after he was stabbed by two unidentified men riding on a motorcycle.
The Korean-American was taking a pedicab headed to his hotel from Polonia International Airport, according to North Sumatra Police chief Sr. Comr. Heru Prakoso.
“The victim had just arrived at 10:30 p.m. local time from Malaysia on an AirAsia flight,” Heru said on Thursday.
Hyein bled to death from a wound to his leg while being treated at Elisabeth Hospital in Medan.
“We are still trying to identify the perpetrators. Their features were obscured since they wore helmets,” Heru said.
Detectives were still searching for a motive, Heru said. All of Hyein’s property was accounted for, mooting assumptions that the killing was a botched robbery.
Three teams were investigating the killing and officers would increase security for travelers around the airport, Heru said.
Kathryn Crockart, a representative of the US consulate in North Sumatra, identified Samuel’s body, declining to comment further.
Consulate spokesperson Meta Saragih said officials were still trying to contact Hyein’s family. “We are still waiting for the results of the police investigation. We cannot comment yet.”
Separately, Japanese citizen Tajhi Bana Noboru was found dead with blood leaking from his nose in his room in Bekasi, West Java, on Wednesday.
Noburu was an engineering manager at the Jababeka Industrial Estate.
Suyatman, who rented a room to Noboru, said he suspected the Japanese had been murdered, since Noboru had always appeared healthy.
Noboru’s body was taken to the National Police Hospital in Kramat Jati, East Jakarta, for an autopsy.
Earlier this month a Singaporean national Chelapan Karunandhi, 43, was found dead with a stab injury to his neck in his apartment at the Kelapa Gading Square City Home complex at the Mall of Indonesia (MOI) in Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta.
A week later police arrested the building’s janitor as a suspect.
