Schoolgirls attacked, 3 beheaded
- From: "Mke" <noaddy@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:27:47 -0400
3 Christian teens' heads chopped off in Indonesia in attacks against non-Muslims
Jakarta: Three Christian teenage girls were beheaded yesterday in the latest
attack against non-Muslims in the troubled Indonesian province of Central
Sulawesi, police said.
The three high school students were found with their heads severed early
yesterday in the sectarian-divided town of Poso, said provincial police
spokesman Rais Adam.
The girls were believed to have been murdered while they were walking to school,
Adam said.
He said two of the victims' heads were found near a police post while the third
was discovered outside a local Christian church in Poso.
"We are still waiting for results from investigation in the field. We are still
trying to determine whether this case is religiously-motivated or not," he told
AFP.
A policewoman on duty in Poso confirmed to AFP that the triple murder had taken
place and that the killings were being investigated.
Parts of Central Sulawesi, including Poso, have been the scene of intermittent
fighting between Christians and Muslims that has left more than 1,000 people
dead since 2000.
The government brokered a peace deal in the area 2001 but sporadic shootings and
bombings have continued.
In May a pair of bomb attacks killed 22 people at a market in the neighbouring
coastal town of Tentena.
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