JAKARTA: Police in central Indonesia shot and killed a rioter yesterday while trying to disperse a mob angry at the death of a student in police custody, according to witnesses, police and a media report.
A mob torched a police station and a police car and hurled stones at the local police chief's house in Sumbawa Besar, a district capital on Sumbawa island, said Col Safdinan, who like many Indonesians uses a single name.
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