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A clash between two groups of young men in Sorong, West Papua, left 19 people dead by burning. Authorities put a damper on the incident to prevent it from triggering ethnic conflict.

 

Riky Ferdianto

February 7, 2022

A black car stopped in the corner of the parking lot of the Sorong City Police Headquarters, West Papua, on Friday, February 4. Two passengers alighted, one a man with sleek hair in posh attire. 

With him was a young man. "It was W. He came to surrender himself accompanied by his lawyer," said Sorong Police Chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Ary Nyoto Setiawan. W was a fugitive from a clash in Sorong that led to a fire at the Double O, an executive club an

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