Jayapura (ANTARA) - The Papua Provincial Police have named six more suspects in the case of torture against security personnel at Waena Expo Hall in the Papua provincial capital of Jayapura. The naming of the new suspects brought to 13 the number of people suspected of involvement in the incident leading to the death of an army soldier, Chief of the Public Relations Section of the Papua Provincial Police Senior Commissioner Ahmad Kamal said in Jayapura Monday night.

The six people identified by their initials as BT, BK, AM, PY, TW and AY, were named suspects in the incident after the police conducted intensive investigations into the whereabouts of 20 students, he said.

Last Tuesday (September 24), the police identified seven suspects by their initials, AA, AD, YK, JK, YK, EB and MK in the case which killed Chief Private Zulkifli of the Raider Infantry Battalion 751 and injured six personnel of the Police's Mobile Brigade (Brimob) unit.

The six Brimob personnel sustained injuries after the demonstrators hurled stones at them. The incident occurred while the demonstrators were being sent home aboard 15 trucks from Cendrawasih University campus.

However, shortly before arriving at Waena Bridge they asked the truck drivers to drop them off and then attacked on-duty security personnel.

The demonstrating students were being sent home as they attempted to camp in the campus and set up a command post there. (INE)

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