Jayapura: The Papua Police have confiscated a homemade weapon together
with 47 bullets discovered in a suitcase abandoned near a trash can on
Jl. Pipa Argapura in Jayapura.
The weapon was discovered by two scavengers on Monday at 11:30 a.m. local time.
“The
two scavengers were suspicious upon discovering the suitcase. As soon
as they saw the weapon after opening it, they reported it to the nearest
police post,” Papua Police spokesman Adj. Sr. Comr. Johanes Nugroho
said Wednesday.
Johanes explained that the box in which the bullets were stored was not made in Indonesia but came from overseas.
The
weapon with its bullets, he said, had been sent to the National
Police’s forensic laboratory for ballistic tests. “It will take one to
two weeks to know the test results,” he said.
When asked whether
the weapon was used by unknown assailants to terrorize the Jayapura area
in a spate of recent unsolved shootings, Johannes said he could not
answer because he had to wait for the results of the ballistic tests.