9 Oct 2002

Solomons probe identifies matermind suspects in weathercoast massacre

12:27 pm on 9 October 2002

Initial findings by Solomon Islands police investigating last June's massacre of ten people who tried to capture rebel leader, Harold Keke, show that two people were behind the mission.

The director of the Criminal Investigations Department, Jackson Ofu, says he cannot name the suspects but a file will be sent to the director of public prosecutions to see if police should lay charges.

Mr Ofu says police are yet to travel to the site of the massacre on Guadalcanal's weather coast

Keke has publicly claimed responsibility for the killings as he did for the assassination of the youth minister, Father Augustine Geve, in August.