Christian girls beheaded in grisly Indonesian attack - World - smh.com.au

Christian girls beheaded in grisly Indonesian attack - World - smh.com.au: "Three teenage Christian girls were beheaded and a fourth was seriously wounded in a savage attack on Saturday by unidentified assailants in the Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi.

The girls were among a group of students from a private Christian high school who were ambushed while walking through a cocoa plantation in Poso Kota subdistrict on their way to class, police Major Riky Naldo said.

The area is close to the provincial capital of Poso, about 1000 kilometres northeast of Jakarta.

Naldo said the heads of the three dead victims were found several kilometres from their bodies.

In Jakarta, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ordered the police to begin a hunt for the killers.

'In the holy month of Ramadan, we are again shocked by a sadistic crime in Poso that claimed the lives of three school students,' he told reporters at the airport as he prepared to fly to Sumatra island.

'I condemn this barbarous killing, whoever the perpetrators are and whatever their motives.'"