Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/03/16
By: Jay Chou and Kuan-lin Liu
Jakarta, March 16 (CNA) A Taiwanese man suspected of selling drugs in Indonesia died on Thursday after being shot by local police as he apparently attempted to escape from police custody.
The 36-year-old man, identified only by the surname Huang (黃), attempted to flee after officers from Indonesia’s National Anti-Narcotics Agency busted a drug deal involving him and two Indonesians at a warehouse in northern Jakarta’s Ancol.
The officers gave chase and after first firing a weapon into the air as a warning, one of them shot Huang in the leg, an agency official earlier told CNA, noting that the injury was not life threatening.
However, agency deputy chief Arman Depari has since made a slightly different statement, saying that Huang attempted to escape twice, once at the warehouse and later when being taken to the agency. [FULL STORY]