Papuan youths taking an evening break near a resting spot in Jayapur, Papua. Attacks by gunmen on security forces near the world's largest gold mine in Indonesia's restive Papua province have killed one police officer and wounded three others, police said Tuesday (March 3). - Reuters
JAYAPURA: Attacks by gunmen on security forces near the world's largest gold mine in Indonesia's restive Papua province have killed one police officer and wounded three others, police said Tuesday (March 3).
Attackers believed to be members of the West Papua Liberation Army, the military wing of the Free Papua Organization, ambushed a police patrol from a hill on Saturday, killing one officer and injuring two others, Papua police chief Paulus Waterpau said.
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