English: The murder of nine people by a group of Team Alfa members led by Joni Marques on 25 September, on the road from Lautém to Baucau near the Malaiada River, took the largest number of lives of any single incident that occurred in Lautém District after the ballot in 1999. The victims included five religious members, namely Sister Erminia Cazzagina, Sister Celeste de Carvalho, Brother Jacinto Xavier, Brother Fernando dos Santos and Brother Valerio da Conceição. The victims also included an Indonesian journalist, Agus Muliawan, and Cristovão Rudy Barreto and Titi Sandra Lopes who were riding in the same vehicle with the nuns and brothers. Izinho Freitas Amaral was caught separately at the same location by the militia group and killed with the other eight. Sister Erminia is said to have been killed as she knelt in prayer. The leader of the group, Joni Marques, said that he had been told that members of Catholic religious orders were also supporters of independence and therefore should be eliminated.