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AMBON - A sniper shot dead a paramilitary policeman and injured another on Tuesday in the eastern Indonesian city of Ambon, where hundreds of police and troops have deployed to quell Muslim-Christian battles. A witness and a hospital doctor confirmed the death of First Private Lalu Safruddin, who arrived only on Monday when reinforcements were sent from Jakarta to the city in the Maluku islands.
The witness said Safruddin, from Bogor in Java island, was killed by a sniper in the Batugantung-Waringin area south of the city centre. First Private Alfiandri, 27, also from Bogor, was critically injured and undergoing surgery, said Dr Sudirman at Al Fatah hospital. He was injured in the same area. The shooting brings the known death toll to 24 since sectarian battles flared Sunday after a parade by Christian separatists.
Batugantung and Waringin were the only areas still hit by sporadic violence on Tuesday. Elsewhere in the bayfront city, business was slowly returning to normal with banks and the market open. An AFP correspondent said the wounded officer was shot about 90 minutes after the first victim in the area, a border area between Muslim and Christian sectors. Some homes in the area, left vacant after their occupants fled, were set ablaze.
The battles which flared Sunday were the worst since a pact in February 2002 ended three years of sectarian fighting in which some 5,000 people died. Some 200 homes were set ablaze. Witnesses said the United Nations mission, a hotel and a church were also torched, as were a Christian university and a Muslim high school hit by tit-for-tat arson attacks. About 400 extra paramilitary police from the Brimob unit have been sent to the city as well as a 450-strong battalion of troops.
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