| PALU: One man was killed and five others injured during clashes between Muslim mobs and police in the religiously divided Indonesian town of Poso, police said Monday. The fighting broke out Sunday evening when about 700 paramilitary police prepared to conduct a house-to-house search for weapons and explosives in the Gebangrejo area of the town, they said. A mob attacked about 16 policemen at their local post near the site of where the search was to take place, said national police spokesman Anton Bahrul Alam. “There are indications that this was planned by certain groups to provoke people so that they would not sympathize with those policemen conducting the raids,” Alam said. Central Sulawesi police spokesman Muhammad Kilat said a 29-year-old resident was shot in the hip and later died, while two others received gunshot wounds and were in critical condition. A policeman was also slightly injured. He said a police truck and three police motorcycles were set on fire. Alam told reporters that rocks and home-made bombs were hurled at the police post and police, and police had fired into the air as a warning. |