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Fijilive (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Fiji police are investigating yet another rape case in which a 24-year-old woman was raped on the outskirts of Suva on Sunday night.The victim and her husband were visiting a friend's home in Sakoca, Tacirua, when the incident happened.According to Police spokesperson (Operations) Atunaisa Sokomuri, the woman and her husband had been invited to drink yaqona by another couple in the area.The...
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Fiji Times (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
Update: 12:46PM POLICE from the Nabua Police Station with the assistance from the Dog Unit raided the house of a alleged drug dealer in Komave Street, Samabula.Assistant police spokesperson Atunaisa Sokomuri said the team of officers managed to confiscate a plastic bag full of dried leaves believed to be marijuana.Mr Sokomuri said the samples are at Koronivia awaiting analysis.
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Fiji Times (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
Update: 11:55AM POLICE are investigating a rape case which happened early Monday morning at Tacirua.Assistant police spokesperson Atunaisa Sokomuri said the 24-year-old victim is alleged to have been raped by the owner of the house she and her husband were guests in.Mr Sokomuri said the accused is said to have locked the husband outside and raped the woman.
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Fiji Times (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
Assistant police spokesman Atunaisa Sokomuri said the latest drowning incident brings to 19 the number of people who've died by drowning this year, the same figure this time last year.
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Fiji Times (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
... or comment on the matter while police investigations were ongoing.Fiji police spokesman Atunaisa Sokomuri said high commission officials did not inform police about the military's suspected involvement.He said investigations regarding the threats were ongoing and police continued to provide security at all entry points to the high commission premises in Tamavua.Questions sent to the military's...
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Fijilive (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
A 32-year-old Indonesian man's body is still at the Suva mortuary as relevant authorities liaise on how best to bury him.Police National Command Centre Media Liaision Officer Atunaisa Sokomuri told Fijilive that the dead sailor had been kept at the mortuary since last Friday and they are trying to liaise with the agent in charge and the Indonesian authorities.He said it was likely that the deceased...
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Fijilive (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
Fiji Police have arrested and charged a Pakistani national for trying to leave the country without declaring the money he carried with him.Assistant Police spokesperson Atunaisa Sokomuri said the man, who runs a business at the Vatuwaqa Industrial Area in Suva, was arrested and charged by Nadi police.He reportedly failed to declare the sum of money he had prior to his departure at Nadi International...
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Fijilive (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
A team of Fiji Police officers departed yesterday for peacekeeping duties in Darfur.The officers, led by Assistant Commissioner of Police Berenado Daveta, were in the country for two weeks after they completed their peacekeeping training in Ghana.Assistant Police spokesperson Atunaisa Sokomuri said the officers would remain in Darfur for a year.“After undergoing intensive peacekeeping training...
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Fijilive (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
Fiji Police have cautioned parents and guardians to take extra care of their children during the current wet spell because sicknesses can lead to death if they are not careful.The caution comes as lawmen investigate the death of a two-month-old baby at weekend.Assistant Police spokesperson Atunaisa Sokomuri says the baby had been feverish for three days and her parents, who reside in Qauia,...
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Fijilive (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
... were diving for fresh water mussels yesterday.According to Assistant Police spokesperson Atunaisa Sokomuri, Joao was said to have been in a depressed mood when last seen by friends.“According to his friends, he was having problems with his studies and may have also been homesick,” said Sokomuri.The circumstances surrounding the 21-year-old's death is uncertain and a post mortem examination...
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Fiji Times (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
"The deceased's friends who had lodged the missing person's report heard the news that a body was found in Rewa River and they called police. They have identified the body," said Mr Sokomuri.
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Fiji Times (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
Mr Batley yesterday told Fiji Television news that he would not spend the rest of his life being cooped up inside his home. When asked if the police were aware that Mr Batley was travelling without any security guard, police spokesman Atunaisa Sokomuri said it was a good sign.
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Fiji Times (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
... the next day, it was not in the morgue. The family then raised the alarm.Police spokesman Atunaisa Sokomuri earlier said it was believed the baby's body was kept with that of another dead man and it had been accidentally buried with him.Ravneel Sharma, the father of the baby, said he had been frustrated by health officials as they only wanted to know where their baby's body was. A morgue...
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Fiji Times (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
THE body of a 32-year- old Indonesian fisherman was found by Fiji Navy divers at the Lami Jetty early on Friday morning.Police spokesman Atunaisa Sokomuri said the man had returned at 1am after drinking in a nightclub in Suva.Mr Sokomuri said the man was a fisherman from one of the vessels moored at Lami jetty and who fell into the water while trying to board his ship.He said the man's...
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Fiji Times (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
AN elderly woman of Fulaga Street in Samabula died yesterday after she was hurt in an accident last week.Police spokesman Atunaisa Sokomuri said the 53-year-old deceased was crossing the road on Ratu Mara Road in Samabula on Thursday last week when she was hit by a car.Mr Sokomuri said the woman received serious injuries from the accident and was admitted at the Colonial War Memorial...
