Investigate Incompetence

Police officers accidentally shot and killed two little girls. The police need to be more competent.

June 3, 2003

IT was a tragedy. The police accidentally shot innocent bystanders in the process of trying to arrest a drug dealer in the crowded Tamansari area in West Jakarta. The drug dealer escaped, but two girls, Surtianah, 12, and Eli, 3 1/2, were killed by stray police bullets. Eli's mother, Mela, 24, was injured and was treated in hospital. Whether it was carelessness, an accident or the result of police incompetence in using guns, it was a tragic oc

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