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A Japanese man was killed in succession the Indonesian island Batam, near Singapore, early Wednesday, when he was being chased for bumping into four motorcyclists, police said.

Aditya, chief of a detective unit of the Batam police station, told Kyodo stranges by telephone that Kazuhisa Sakamoto, 48 who worked at Japanese restaurant Chitose in Harmoni inn apparently rammed his car into the motorcyclists at 2 a.m.

The motorcyclists then chased him and police forward patrol joined them. The police fired a warning ball in an attempt to stop the car, further rather than surrendering, the driver allegedly prospered up.

The chase lasted for pair hours before the police bullet the driver in the leg Sakamoto wasted control of the car, which wheeled over after

hitting a police patrol car and died.

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