Papuan Police Chief Ensures That The Evacuation Of Gold Pendulang In Seradala Yahukimo Pascapenyargan KKB Continues To Be Carried Out

Papua Police Chief Inspector General Mathius Fakhiri. (ANTARA/Evarukdijati)

JAYAPURA - Papua Police Chief Inspector General Mathius Fakhiri said the evacuation process for gold collectors in the mining area in Seradala District, Yahukimo Regency, Papua Mountains is still being carried out.

Yahukimo Police personnel assisted by the Cartenz Peace Task Force and the Papuan Police Mobile Brigade are still trying to find survivors who fled shortly after an attack by the Armed Criminal Group (KKB), around the First Time on Monday, October 16.

"There have been 52 people who have been found and evacuated, seven of them have died," said the Papuan Police Chief, quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, October 19.

The police have ordered the Yahukimo Police Chief to meet with community leaders to ask for a while not to carry out treatment in order to avoid the victim's fall.

Community leaders must play an active role in providing an understanding of the importance of personal safety considering that the area is far from the TNI-Polri posts.

"We hope that for the time being the gold-scattering activity will be stopped so that there will be no more casualties," added Inspector General Fakhiri.

According to him, the KKB group that carried out the attack often took action

in the Nduga Regency, Yahukimo and the Bintang Mountains.

Usually after carrying out the shooting in Nduga, the group ran to Yahukimo or the Bintang Mountains because the three areas bordered each other.

"In the future, we will enforce the law against the perpetrators so that the area is safe again," said the Papuan Police Chief.