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No Indonesian victims in UCLA shooting
No Indonesian citizens have been reported to have fallen victim in a murder-suicide shooting at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), the US, on Wednesday.
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On alert -- Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi speaks at a media conference at the Foreign Ministry in Jakarta. The minister said there were no Indonesian victims in Wednesday's UCLA shooting. (thejakartapost.com/-)
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o Indonesian citizens have been reported to have fallen victim in a murder-suicide shooting at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), the US, on Wednesday.
"I have received a report from the Indonesian Consulate in Los Angeles that there were no Indonesia victims in the shooting incident, perpetrated by several people on the UCLA campus," Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi said in a written statement received by thejakartapost.com.
Retno said the Indonesian Consulate in Los Angeles would continue to monitor the situation. Three staff members have been assigned to monitor developments in the case and to coordinate with local authorities, she further said.
Retno, who was on her way to Paris, France, for a ministerial meeting, received information from the consul that a shooting had taken place on the UCLA campus at 10 a.m. local time. The attack was reportedly perpetrated by four men dressed in black.
Within less than an hour, campus security had locked down the university grounds, which sprawl across 170 hectares. Shortly after the incident, authorities announced that two men had been killed.
It was reported that authorities managed to contain the situation shortly after noon. Results of a preliminary evaluation by the police revealed that the incident was a murder-suicide. They announced one perpetrator and one victim dead.
Associated Press reported William S. Klug, a professor of mechanical engineering, was gunned down in an engineering building office. Local authorities also reportedly found a gun and what might be a suicide note. (ebf)
