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Papuan police detain 14 after six deaths
Police are still detaining and intensively questioning 14 Timika residents over their possible involvement in the deaths of six people following a communal clash
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P
olice are still detaining and intensively questioning 14 Timika residents over their possible involvement in the deaths of six people following a communal clash.
'Yes, they are still being questioned intensively,' Papuan Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Sulistyo Pudjo said on Friday.
Although, the police claimed the situation had returned to normal, hundreds of police officers were still stationed in several places in Timika.
The clashes erupted on Tuesday following the death of a Dani tribe leader, identified as Korea Waker, whose decapitated body was found floating in the Kali Merah River in Longpon-Pigapu village on Monday evening.
Separately, Papua Police deputy chief Brig. Gen. Paulus Waterpauw said the death of Waker had nothing to do with the recent shootings or the arrest of members of the Free Papua Movement in Lanny Jaya regency.
'From the investigators' examination, so far there was no relation,' Paulus said on Friday.
