One officer was killed and two of his relatives injured when unknown assailants attacked their home in Yapen, Papua, at 1:30 a.m., local time, on Saturday.
Chief
Brig. Jefri Sesa died from a stab wound to the stomach in the attack,
which occurred when he was asleep at his residence in the Angkaisera
police sub-station housing complex.
“Around
10 perpetrators broke into the victim’s house, hitting him, his wife
and a relative,” Papua Police spokesman Sr. Comr. I Gede Sumerta Jaya
said on Saturday in Jayapura.
Sumerta
said that Jefri resisted before he was stabbed and that the assailants,
led by a man identified as RO, made off with his police-issued Pindad
SS1-V5 assault rifle.
The
group then left and started shooting into the house of another police
officer, Brig. Lamek Matui, before fleeing when officers responded.
Yapen Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Ruddy Tan led a team that pursued the assailants, capturing one suspect, identified as YB, 20.
Sumerta
said the attack was perpetrated by a group that had been extorting
several companies in Serui, Yapen Island. “Authorities in the region
have provided security assistance to those companies.”
Another Yapen Police officer was shot in Angkaisera on March 13 in a similar incident.
“Security personnel will keep pursuing the group and investigating the one member who is in our custody,” Sumerta said.
On
Nov. 27, 2012, a group of armed men attacked the Pirime police
substation in Lanny Jaya regency, killing three police officers.