Inter-young Brawls In Palembang Sunday Morning, One People Died Gored

Palembang Police Chief Kombes Pol Mohkamad Ngajib visited the bodies of the dead from a brawl on Jalan Demang Lebar Daun, Sunday (15/1/2022) (Between)

JAKARTA - Police officers reported that a teenage boy was the victim of a stabbing to death in a brawl between young people on Jalan Demang Lebar Daun, Palembang, South Sumatra, Sunday morning. Head of the Palembang City Police Grand Commissioner Pol Mokhamad Ngagab, in Palembang, Sunday, said the victim was found in critical condition by two Samapta personnel of the South Sumatra Police lying on the edge of Jalan Demang Lebar Daun, Sunday at around 04.10 WIB. At that time, the victim was found by police personnel who were carrying out patrols of enhanced routine activities (KRYD) using a motorbike following up information on the existence of intermuda brawls at that location. He said, in the victim's body, one stab wound was found in the back of the back of the head, four stab wounds on the back of the left thigh and one cut in the left thigh. For this condition, the police and residents who passed by the location had evacuated the victim to the UGD Bhayangkara M Hasan Hospital until finally the person concerned was declared dead. "The unknown male youth body is currently still at Bhayangkara M Hasan Hospital, he said, while urging residents who feel the loss of family members to go directly to the nearest hospital/police office. Furthermore, he explained, from this incident, his party immediately moved to form a joint team of the Palembang Police Criminal Investigation Unit- West Ilir Police Criminal Investigation Unit 1 to pursue the perpetrators of the brawl. The results are based on information compiled from the Head of West Ilir Sector Police 1, his party has arrested as many as eight suspected brawlers, Sunday afternoon.

The alleged perpetrators had the initials DK (18), AA (22) MS (19), MRH (19), MK (18), AK (16), AP (17) and R (21) residents of Lorong Pelita, Ilir Barat I, Palembang. They were arrested at the Ilir Barat Sector 1 Police Office along with alleged evidence of a number of sharp weapons of the type of machete and 12 motorcycles. "The alleged perpetrators are undergoing examination at the Ilir Barat 1 Police Station. The police suspect that the brawl was triggered by mutual satire on Instagram Social Media, but it is still under development," he told Antara.