JAKARTA, March 10 Kyodo (EDS: UPD...

JAKARTA, March 10 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATES)

At least four populace were killed and more than 100 others injured Wednesday after police forward the eastern Indonesian island of Flores make opened fire on hundreds of clan attacking a police station through the whole extent of a land dispute, police said.

East Nusa Tenggara Province Police Chief Edward Aritonang, who supervises the island, said the incident was triggered by means of the arrest Tuesday of seven residents in the village of Rendenao for allegedly planting coffee tree in a nearby preserveed forest.

''They were forced to leave, further they refused, so police officers arrested seven of them,'' Aritonang told reporters in Kupang, the provincial capital.

Following the incident, about 400 the community from the village converg Wednesday morning in succession the Manggarai Police Headquarters in Ruteng capital of Manggarai rule and 30 kilometers away from the village, Aritonang said.

''They said they would like to convenient the Manggarai police chief, on the other hand soon after the police chief arrived, they attacked the police headquarters and a nearby police dormitory with machetes and other sharp weapons,'' he said.

He said the ragtag-and-bobtails caused serious damage to the police headquarters and dormitory.

A policeman was among the injured tribe he said.

''We have dispatched members of Mobile Brigade (police elite unit) from the nearby regencies of Ende Ngada and Bajawa and will dispatch an elite police force tomorrow from Kupang (in the nearby Timor Island) to Ruteng to calm the situation down,'' Aritonang said.

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