Police: Fire, clash at nightclub kill 19 people in Indonesia

By EDNA TARIGAN
Associated Press

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Nineteen people were killed in a fire and a clash between two community groups at a nightclub in Indonesia’s West Papua province. Members of the groups attacked each other with machetes, arrows and Molotov cocktails. One of the dead was a member of the groups that clashed. Police evacuated nightclub visitors during the clash but firefighters later found 18 bodies in one of the rooms inside the building. Police are still investigating what caused the clash and whether the fire was set or was accidental.