Investigate Cause Of Fire In South Petojo, Police Will Check Witness This Weekend

Gambir Metro Police Chief Kompol Mugia Yarry Junanda (Brown uniform)/ Photo: Rizky Sulistio/ VOI

JAKARTA - The Gambir Metro Police have begun examining witnesses related to the fire in the RT 03/05 area, Petojo Selatan Village, Gambir District, Central Jakarta this weekend.

"The first call should have been on Monday but they (witnesses) asked for time until the end of this week," said Gambir Metro Police Chief Kompol Mugia Yarry Junanda to VOI, Thursday, February 2.

Kompol Mugia said that until today, his party had not examined witnesses. The police prioritize humanitarian factors for the victims of the fire.

"They are still arranging temporary shelters. We prioritize humanity first. They still ask for time to take (take) their belongings that can be saved," he said.

Meanwhile, the investigation process from the sampling of the remaining fire at the location of the fire that caused the fire is still being carried out by laboratory tests at the National Police Headquarters Laboratory.

"The lab results are waiting for the puslabfor, because we don't know the content and others are from the puslabfor. At most 14 days after taking samples at the kp," he said.

As is known, the Gambir Metro Police together with the Forensic Laboratory Center (Puslabfor) of the National Police Headquarters have conducted crime scenes and taken soil samples, debris and charcoal from the fire at the former fire site, RT 03/05, South Petojo Village, Gambir District, Central Jakarta on Tuesday, February 28, afternoon.