116 Are Reported Slain in Moluccas

Muslim fighters attacked a Christian village in eastern Indonesia, leaving at least 116 people dead in what Christians said was a massacre. Police said 108 Christians and eight Muslims died in the fighting Monday in the village of Duma, on Halmahera island about 1,600 miles northeast of Jakarta, the Indonesian capital. Church workers said that as many as 160 people, including 152 Christians and eight Muslims, were killed. “It was a massacre by Muslims,” said Father Hadi, a Protestant clergyman based in the nearby town of Tobelo. The violence was one of the worst incidents in the long-running conflict in the Molucca Islands, in which 2,500 have died.