Jakarta - At least 11 people were shot dead or hacked to death in fighting between Christians and Muslims yesterday in Indonesia's remote eastern Kai islands, taking the death toll to 13 in two days, witnesses said.
"At least 11 people were killed due to unrest in Tualtown between machete-wielding Muslims and Christians," a witness from the islands, 3,285 km east of Jakarta, said.
Witnesses said some of the victims were shot by police and soldiers trying to stop fighting between Christian and Muslim villagers over a plot of disputed land.