MAKASSAR - The police have named six suspects in the case of demolishing seven tombs and taking the bodies of four victims of COVID-19 at the public cemetery in Bacukiki, Parepare City, South Sulawesi.
"The perpetrator has been secured by the Parepare Police. There were six people who took (the body) and dismantled the tomb. They are still related to the body of the COVID-19 victim", said Head of Public Relations of the South Sulawesi Regional Police, Kombes E Zulpan, quoted by Antara, Sunday, March 14.
The six perpetrators with the initials AK, NA, AAS, A, D and R are still being investigated by investigators. According to Kombes Zulpan, the suspects gave different comments.
Some claim to carry out the mandate of the family of the COVID-19 victims to move them to the family cemetery. Some perpetrators dreamed that the victim asked to be transferred to another funeral.
This dream is called the perpetrator to be the motivation and mandate to dismantle the tomb, then carry and then bury his body in another burial place.
"There are also dreamers who have their bodies (victims of COVID-19) removed", said Kombes Zulpan.
The six perpetrators of the demolition had different roles, from hoeing and digging tombs to retrieving the bodies of the victims.
Previously, the head of the Bacukiki sub-district, Saharuddin, said that the incident was revealed by residents' reports that the tomb had been uncovered on Thursday, March 11.
"There are residents who wanted to clean up the cemetery, then found several graves of COVID-19 victims that had been uncovered and scattered about, then these residents reported the incident to the sub-district officials, then reported it to the authorities", he said.
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