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Bodies of 2 Brimob personnel evacuated to Jayapura
The bodies of Second Adj
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he bodies of Second Adj. Insp. Thomson Siahaan and Second Brig. Everson, two Brimob personnel who were shot dead by an armed criminal group in Ilaga, Puncak regency, Papua, arrived in Jayapura on Thursday.
Evacuated via Timika in Mimika regency, Papua, the two officers' bodies were rushed to Bhayangkara Police Hospital for autopsies shortly after arriving at Sentani Airport, Jayapura. Their bodies will reportedly be sent back to their hometowns on Friday. Thomson will be buried in his hometown Parsoburon in Tobasa regency, North Sumatra, and Everson in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara.
Papua Police deputy chief Brig. Gen. Paulus Waterpauw said police had questioned five people who reportedly witnessed the shooting incident.
'In preliminary information, it was said the two Brimob personnel were first tortured before later being shot. In fact, they were first shot and then tortured by the perpetrators, who also confiscated a firearm,' he said on Thursday.
The police suspected that the Yambi group, an armed civilian group led by Leka Telenggen and Tenga Mati, was directly responsible for the incident.
'The killing was allegedly perpetrated by 10 people from the Yambi group led by Telenggen and Tenga Mati. This group has been responsible for a number of security-disruption incidents in Puncak Jaya,' said Puncak Jaya Police precinct chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Marselis.
Papua Police have deployed two groups of security personnel to help strengthen security operations to calm down the situation in Ilaga after the incident.
Marselis said Ilaga only had a sub-precinct police office, or Polsek, with 17 police personnel. 'Ilaga is facing a shortage of security personnel. There should be at least one platoon of police personnel there, but in fact it has only 17 police officers,' he said.
The Brimob headquarters in Kotaraja, Jayapura, flew the national flag at half-staff to commemorate the shooting victims. A number of Brimob personnel prepared a hall where Thomson and Everson will be waked before they are flown to their hometowns on Friday. (ebf)(++++)
