Soldier arrested after bar shooting

DENPASAR: Udayana Military Command military police detained an Army corporal following a shooting at a popular bar in Kuta that left a security guard critically wounded.

The soldier was identified only as A.M., who is an officer with the intelligence unit at the Wirasatya military base.

“The soldier is being interrogated at the military police headquarters to establish the nature and motive of the shooting,” Udayana Military Command spokesperson Col. Wing Handoko said on Tuesday.

Udayana Military Command oversees military affairs in Bali and West Nusa Tenggara while the Wirasatya military base is responsible for military affairs in Bali.

The shooting took place prior to dawn Monday outside the Santa Fe Bar in Legian, Kuta. Details about it are sketchy.

Witnesses said that the incident took place after a brawl between several of the bar’s patrons.

The bar’s security guards broke up the fight and one of them, identified as Wayan Surata, was escorting a patron out of the bar when he was shot.

Surata is being treated at Sanglah General Hospital’s emergency unit.

The attending physicians are concentrating on stabilizing his condition before performing surgery to extract the bullet from his abdomen.