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Security patrols to prevent beheading revenge attacks

1 November 2005

RHIANNON EDWARD

HUNDREDS of security forces patrolled tense streets in the Indonesian province of central Sulawesi yesterday to prevent revenge attacks after assailants wearing black veils beheaded three Christian schoolgirls and seriously wounded a fourth.

National police spokesman Major-General Aryanto Budihardjo said the murders were carried out by "terrorists" seeking to destabilise the area, which has long been plagued by violence between Muslims and Christians. He said it was no coincidence the attack occurred just days before the biggest holiday on the Islamic calendar......

The injured girl, who was in stable condition at a police hospital yesterday, said six assailants wearing black veils carried out the attack as the students walked through a cocoa plantation on their way to school just outside of Poso, reported the provincial police chief Colonel Oegroseno.

The heads of the three victims were found several miles from their bodies. Two were left near a police station and another in front of a newly built Christian church.