Suspected rebels kill five civilians in Indonesia's Papua province


The coffin bearing the body of Abel Halenti, a construction worker who was shot on June 3 by members of an armed criminal group, arrives at Mozes Kilangin Airport in Timika, in Papua on June 5, 2021. - AFP

JAKARTA, June 27 (dpa): Separatist rebels killed five civilians in the latest violence in Indonesia's Papua province, the military has announced.

Members of the Free Papua Movement fired shots at a truck that was fleeing their ambush in Yahukimo district on Thursday (June 24), killing five bystanders, said regional military spokesman Colonel I Gusti Ngurah Suriastawa.

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