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Police, military chiefs among 3 dead in Aceh

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Agence France Presse - February 15, 2000

Bandah Aceh – A police chief, a military subdistrict chief and a policeman were shot dead by unknown gunmen today in the latest attacks on security officers in Indonesia's restive Aceh province, police said here.

Second Lieutenant Cut Ajad, the police chief of the Kluet Selatan subprecinct, was killed in an ambush by gunmen in the village of Pulo Ie while patrolling in a car, Aceh police spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Sayed Husaini was quoted as saying.

Two other police were injured in an exchnage of fire during the incident, Husaini said, adding one of the wounded had died later in hospital.

"The group were in Ayi village, about four kilometers from police headquarters, when the armed group opened fire," Husaini said. "Police chief Ajad died on the spot, and Sergeant Major Hayat died in hospital."

Gunmen struck again today shooting dead Captain Muhammad Lara, the head of the military command in Darul Imamah subdistrict early in the afternoon on the outskirts of the provincial capital of Banda Aceh, Lietenant Colonel Ira Suparmo of the local military command said. Lara had been on his way home to Paseu Beutong district, he said,

Yesterday Second Lieutenant Djamil Yahya, the head of Mutiara police subdistrict, was shot by an unidentified man when he was riding a motorcycle near a market in Pidie district, police said. All the victims Sunday and Monday were natives of Aceh, residents said.

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