Tensions have risen after shooting was heard over the past two nights in the religiously divided Poso district of Indonesia's Central Sulawesi. Residents in the villages of Matako and Lage in Poso reported they heard gunshots on Thursday and Friday nights, said district deputy police chief Rudi Trenggono. "There were no casualties. We suspect that the gunmen, whom we are still after, were only trying to put fear into people as the Eid-al-Fitr holiday approaches," he told AFP. Police said Poso is safe but "people are a bit tense" by the shootings, he said, adding that a security force of about 3,000 men is on alert.
| It could be they're tense because of the desire of Islamists, local and imported, to kill them. |
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