Shooters of Amien Rais's Car Used Homemade Rifle: Police

Sleman, Yogyakarta (Antara) - The person who shot at the car of former People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) chairman Amien Rais on early Thursday might have used a homemade rifle and an obsolete bullet, a local police officer said. "The assumption is based on the thorough examination of the bullet casing and projectile fragments that were found at the crime spot by police investigators," Yogyakarta police spokesperson Adjunct Senior Commissioner Anny Pudjiastuti stated here on Friday. The shooting took place some nine meters away from Amien Rais's Toyota Harrier van that was parked in front of his house at Pandeansari housing complex here. A 223-calibre bullet was recovered from the spot, she noted. The suspect jumped the house's fence to carry out the shooting, she added. "The findings have been discussed by the Yogyakarta police investigators at their meeting with a team from the Semarang-based National Police's Forensics Laboratory Center," she revealed. (*)