After Checking Witnesses And CCTV, Police Hunt For Perpetrators Of Attacks On Traders At Ceylon Gambir Market

Market illustration/ Photo: Jehan/VOI

The Gambir Metro Police Criminal Investigation Unit is still examining a number of witnesses related to the attack on a group of young men armed with sharp weapons against vegetable traders in the Ceylon J Market area, Kebon Kelapa Village, Gambir District, Central Jakarta, which occurred on Sunday, June 19.

"We have visited the TKP and interrogated several witnesses at the TKP. So far, no loss has been found, both property and life from the incident," said Gambir Metro Police Chief Kompol Mugia Yarry Junanda when confirmed by VOI, Monday, June 19.

The attack was caught by CCTV surveillance cameras at the scene. In the CCTV footage circulating, it appears that the perpetrator came on a motorbike. One perpetrator who was riding down carrying a sharp weapon of the type of sickle.

"There have been 3 witnesses who have been taken for information. We are currently still investigating the perpetrators who were caught on CCTV cameras," he said.

The perpetrators carried out brutal attacks on traders who were resting. But fortunately, the traders managed to save themselves so that there were no casualties.

Meanwhile, according to the testimony of a witness named Idris, he said that the attack was carried out by a group of youths using motorbikes. Three of the perpetrators got off the motorbike while carrying sharp weapons.

"There was a motorbike, three people came down with a knife. I ran back to save myself, if in the future I was finished," he said.

Meanwhile, the case is still being handled by the Gambir Metro Police Criminal Investigation Unit. The perpetrators of the attack are still being sought by the police.