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The fighting broke out last Tuesday, pitting the indigenous Malays and Dayaks against the Madurese, recent migrants from the island of Madura, off eastern Java. Many of the victims were decapitated, and there have been unconfirmed reports of cannibalism. Indonesia's evening daily newspaper Berita Buana said more than 200 died. With the death toll likely to rise, thousands of Madurese left homeless by the violence have taken refugee in the provincial capital's sports stadium and other places. In the town of Sambas and many surrounding villages, crowds of Malays and Dayaks looted burned-out Madurese neighborhoods.