Jakarta – Dozens of Indonesian soldiers ran amok and destroyed a traditional market in the capital, seriously injuring two market workers, reports said Tuesday.

The Suara Karya daily said the soldiers were angered after four of their colleagues were reprimanded by the market's security guard for creating noise and drinking at a bar there on Sunday night.

The soldiers were later taken the security guard's post to settle the dispute and they apologized.

But soon after that a mob of some 50 soldiers, in army uniforms and in plainclothes and armed with teargas and batons stormed the market and destroyed several kiosks there.

Two market laborers were rushed unconscious to hospital after being beaten up and slashed.