The slugs may be cold but the case is figuratively still hot in regards to the recent accidental shooting at Indonesia’s House of Representatives (DPR) office tower, as today there are new reports of two more bullets found inside the building.
Unlike the previous two bullets that were found on Monday — one of which pierced through an employee’s hijab — DPR officials today said the other two are believed to have been shot into two offices, one on the 10th floor and the other on the 20th, while they were empty. The bullets were reportedly found lodged in the walls of the two offices, which are assigned to a legislator from PAN and another from the Democratic Party.
While a police investigation is still ongoing, preliminary results show that the two latest bullets were fired at the same time as the two found on Monday, which police say were accidentally fired from a nearby shooting range (situated 400 yards away from the tower) by two shooters.
“Yes, they’re the same,” National Police Ballistics Department Head Ulung Sanjaya told Detik this afternoon.
The shooters have previously been named suspects for illegal modification of firearms and firing them without a license. They each face up to 20 years in prison.
The police downplayed any speculation that this was an attempted political assassination, as the stray bullets appear to have hit offices in the tower randomly, and that the legislators assigned to those offices were from opposing political factions.
In light of the accidental shooting, House Speaker Bambang Soesatyo has called on the government to install bulletproof film on the office tower’s windows to protect legislators. Other legislators have called on the shooting range to be relocated because not only are they dangerously close to the DPR complex, it’s also situated right in the heart of the bustling Senayan subdistrict.
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