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Student dies from protest injuries

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Agence France Presse - October 3, 1999

Jakarta – A student died in hospital in the Indonesian city of Bandarlampoung Sunday, a second victim of clashes between protestors and security personnel, a university employee said.

"Saidatul Fitria died at the hospital at 4.30am and she was buried at her village in Gadingrejo," an employee of Lampung University said by telephone from Bandarlampung, capital of the province of Lampung on the island of Sumatra.

Fitria's skull was fractured in a clash on September 29 as students took to the streets to protest the passage through parliament of a bill which they said would give the military sweeping powers. Another Lampung Universtity student, Muhamad Rizal Yusuf, was shot dead by soldiers on the day of the protest.

The university employee, who identified himself only as Bambang, said Fitria, a student of the faculty of teachers' training and education, had died at Abdul Muluk state hospital.

Seven people, including another student, died in Jakarta in parallel clashes with security troops in running protests against the security bill last week.

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