TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian National Police announced that the riot at Police Mobile Brigade’s (Brimob) Detention Center in Depok, which broke out last night, has killed five police officers. Another one has been held as hostage.
An inmate was also killed in the incident. Their bodies were taken to the R. Soekanto Police Hospital at Kramat Jati in East Jakarta.
“We were forced to take actions against one of the inmates after he resisted the prison officers and stole an officer’s firearm,” said Indonesian National Police spokesperson Brig. Gen. Mohammad Iqbal at the Brimob detention center today.
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Police have not yet overcome the riot that broke out at the terrorist cell block in the Brimob detention center sparked by a trivial matter involving a meal sent to the prisoner.
Previously, Iqbal said that police were still negotiating with the terrorism convicts. He called on the public to leave the matter to the police.
IRSYAN HASYIM