Drunk tourist hijacks car, knocks down five people in Bali

Thursday, 18 September 2008 21:10 WIB
WASPADA ONLINEKUTA, Indonesia - Denpasar police have detained a Brazilian tourist who killed at least one person and seriously injured four others while driving a hyjacked car at high speed apparently under the influence of alcohol. The Brazilian, identified as Guilherme Guades (24), ran the car against a girl, Atik (23), who was riding on a motorcycle on Legian Road in Kuta on Thursday. Atik died on the spot. Before hitting Atik, Guades also knocked down four motorcycle riders in his drunken spree. The four sustained injuries so serious they had to be admitted to the intensive care unit of Sanglah General Hospital. The dead girl`s body was also taken to Sanglah General Hospital where doctors conducted an autopsy. According to several eyewitness, Guades who was at first riding a motorcycle bumped into a parked car at round 07.15 local time. He fell to the ground but after he was able to get on his feet again, he stopped a slow-moving car and, after pulling out its driver, drove off in the car in southern direction at high speed. During his trip in the hijacked car, he ran down four motorcylists and only stopped after hitting Atik on her motocycle.Meanwile, Denpasar Police Chief Senior Commissioner Gede Widana confirmed that police had detained Guades for causing the death of one person and injuries to four others. In a preliminary investigation, police had found indications that Guades had consumed liquor only a short while before. "Our preliminary conclusion is that Guades was drunk but we still need to develop this clue further in the field," Widana said.(j01/ann)