The National Police said that with support from the army they intend to hunt down those responsible for the most recent shootings in Timika, Papua, which killed three people.
“The national police and the army have dispatched a team to pursue the perpetrators,” police spokesman Insp. Gen. Anton Bachrul Alam said Friday, as quoted by kompas.com.
He said that shells discovered at the scene of the shooting indicated 5.56 and 7.62 millimeter-sized bullets, which police suspected were respectively fired by M16 and AK47 weapons.
The shooting on Friday morning killed driver Aloysius Margono and gold miners Yunus and Eto.