Duel Of Inmates In Banjar Narcotics Prison, South Kalimantan, Victim Died Beaten By Iron Plates

Head of the Karang Intan Narcotics Prison Wahyu Susetyo in Martapura City, Banjar Regency, South Kalimantan some time ago. (ANTARA/Yose Rizal)

MARTAPURA - Management of the Special Narcotics Class IIA Karang Intan I Banjar Regency, South Kalimantan (Kalsel) is investigating a duel between inmates that killed one victim with the initials AM (33). "The victim AM is suspected of having died because of a fight with the perpetrator with the initials HRA. Both of them were involved in a fight in the room where they were serving their sentences," said Head of the Karang Intan Narcotics Prison Wahyu Susetyo in Martapura, Banjar Regency, quoted from Antara, Monday, August 7. Wahyu explained that the chronology of the one-on-one fight between the victim AM and the perpetrator with the initials HRA occurred in the occupants' cell room on Monday at around 03.00 WITA in the morning. Wahyu revealed that the fight allegedly started when victim AM was disturbed while sleeping because the perpetrator nudged until a verbal altercation broke out and the victim attacked the perpetrator. Wahyu revealed that other occupants in the room had tried to intervene, but an emotional AM continued to attack the perpetrators, so HRA attacked back using an iron plate. Knowing the incident, Wahyu said, the guard officers sounded an alarm sign of security disturbances in the prison environment, while other personnel moved to the scene. A number of officers who came to the room where the incident found the victim covered in blood with several wounds on his body, then took AM to the hospital for help. "When officers came to the scene, the victim was still breathing and rushed to the prison clinic for first aid. Then he was referred to the hospital but on the way died," he said. Wahyu emphasized that there was no element of beatings that caused the victim to die, but purely because of a one-on-one fight that was known to the perpetrator using an iron plate. Wahyu said officers were still investigating the origin of the iron plate used by the perpetrator to injure the body until the victim died with a number of wounds. "Our officers are still investigating how the iron plate can enter the prison environment because it is prohibited, so it must be prevented so that it does not happen again," he said.

Wahyu revealed that the prison had coordinated with the ranks of the Karang Intan Police and the Banjar Police who handled the case and secured the perpetrators in the coaching cell for further legal proceedings.