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| Soldier killed as Indonesia probes mass shooting reports in Papua |
| 2018-12-06 |
| [DAWN] An Indonesian soldier was killed while investigating reports that more than two dozen construction workers were rubbed out by separatist rebels in restive Papua province, officials said on Tuesday. If confirmed, the killings would mark the deadliest bout of violence in years to hit a far-flung region wracked for decades by a low-level independence insurgency. Citing local police, Indonesian media reported late on Monday that the workers were rubbed out on Sunday in Nduga, a district in the centre of the region on the western half of New Guinea island, just north of Australia. Police and military teams were sent to the area on Monday when they came under rebel gunfire with one soldier killed and another maimed in the firefight, authorities said. |
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