Wearing PSI T-shirt, This Is The Slasher Of Vegetable Seller Due To Jealousy

Yosowilangun Police, Lumajang, East Java, arrested the perpetrators of slashing a vegetable seller. Perpetrator slashes victim with sickle (PHOTO DIVHUMAS POLRI)

LUMAJANG - Yosowilangun Police, Lumajang, East Java, arrested the perpetrator of slashing a vegetable seller. The perpetrator slashed the victim with a sickle.

Yosowilangun Police Chief AKP Hariyanto through Paursubbaghumas Second Inspector Andrias Shinta said the perpetrator was arrested by a man with the initials MH (46), a resident of Munder Village, Yosowilangun District.

"This man has to deal with the police because he slashed a man with the initials W (53), a resident of Kebonsari Village, Yosowilangun District," said Second Inspector Andrias Shinta, as quoted from the Police Public Relations statement, Friday, June 11.

As a result of being slashed with a sickle, victim W suffered lacerations to his stomach, lacerations to the back of his right hand, and bruises to his lips.

The torture with a sickle took place on Friday, June 11 morning in Krajan Hamlet, Kebonsari Village, Yosowilangun District, Lumajang. The perpetrator slashed the victim because of jealousy to the victim who was suspected of having an affair with the perpetrator's wife.

"Initially the perpetrator suspected that his wife was having an affair with the victim, who both worked as a vegetable seller, then followed his wife and was found chatting with the victim in front of the victim's house," explained Second Inspector Andrias.

The perpetrator then slashed the victim with a sickle-type knife, hitting the stomach and hands, and hitting the victim's lips with his bare hands.

"The perpetrator was arrested after surrendering to the Yosowilangun Sector Police and admitting to having tortured/stabbed the victim, is now languishing in the Lumajang Police detention center for further investigation by the Crime Investigation Unit," he concluded.