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One dead in Papua police attack
One officer was killed and two of his relatives injured when their official housing in Yapen, Papua, was attacked at 1:30 a
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ne officer was killed and two of his relatives injured when their official housing in Yapen, Papua, was attacked at 1:30 a.m., local time, on Saturday.
Chief Brig. Jefri Sesa died from a stab wound to the stomach in the attack, which occurred when he was asleep at his residence in the Angkaisera police station housing complex.
'Around 10 perpetrators broke into the victim's house, hitting him, his wife and a relative,' Papua Police spokesman Sr. Comr. I Gede Sumerta Jaya said on Saturday.
Sumerta said that Jefri resisted before he was stabbed and that the assailants made off with his police-issued Pindad SS1-V5 assault rifle.
The group then left and started shooting into the house of another police officer, Brig. Lamek Matui, before fleeing.
Officers later arrested YB, 20, for the attack, which Sumerta said was perpetrated by a group that has extorted several companies in Serui, Yapen Island.
Sumerta said the similar group attacked a police officer in Angkaisera on March 13. (nai/ebf)
