The Papua Provincial Police dispatched an investigating team to probe the shooting of an Army soldier in Dekai Sub-district, Yahukimo District, when tens of people thronged the Dekai Police Precinct on Wednesday night.

The team departed for Dekai on Friday to investigate the incident that led to the death of an Army soldier, with gunshot wounds on his thigh, Chief of the Profession and Security Division at the Papua Provincial Police Senior Commissioner Gustav Urbinas stated here on Friday.

The incident followed a report filed by a local resident to the Dekai Police Precinct about a quarrel at a food stall located in front of the police precinct. The quarrel involved the Army soldier and the food stall’s employee and owner.

An officer of the Dekai Police Precinct attempted to mediate and address the misunderstanding between them. However, some 70 people flocked to the Police Precinct Office on Wednesday night, with some of them pelting stones at it and setting fire to its wood fence.

Upon receiving a report of the incident, chief of the Yahukimo District Police and his men rushed to the police precinct to handle the incident.

Shortly after the situation could be brought under control, the police received a report that an Army soldier was shot dead, with gunshot wounds on his thigh, and was taken to the Yahukimo Regional General Hospital in Dekai.

“May the result of the investigation be announced soon, so we can know the exact cause of the incident,” he stated.

Source: Antara News