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Police say a gunman fired on an Indonesian military truck near a U.S.-owned gold mine in eastern Papua province, wounding a soldier.
Chief of Papua police Maj. Gen. Bagus Ekodanto said Thursday the truck was carrying food and supplies to troops deployed near the world’s largest gold mine, operated by Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc of [...]

Police say a gunman fired on an Indonesian military truck near a U.S.-owned gold mine in eastern Papua province, wounding a soldier.
Chief of Papua police Maj. Gen. Bagus Ekodanto said Thursday the truck was carrying food and supplies to troops deployed near the world’s largest gold mine, operated by Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc of [...]

Two people have been injured in another shooting incident at the Freeport gold and copper mine in Indonesia’s Papua province.
The Jakarta Post reports two employees of the US company were shot and wounded yesterday morning near the world’s largest gold mine.
Papua Police say the mine workers were hit when a busload of 60 employees came [...]

JAKARTA
GUNMEN have shot and wounded two employees of US company Freeport as their bus travelled along a road to the world’s largest gold mine in eastern Indonesia.
The two miners were hit yesterday when the security-escorted bus carrying 60 employees was attacked in restive West Papua province, police spokesman Agus Rianto said. The injured men were [...]

JAKARTA–Two Indonesians working for Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. were injured on Tuesday morning when a bus carrying 60 employees to one of the world’s largest gold mines came under fire from unknown assailants early Tuesday, a company spokesman said.
It was the latest in a string of similar sniper attacks that have hit convoys of [...]

JAKARTA, Oct 20 (Reuters) – Two employees were wounded in a shooting near Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc.’s (FCX.N: 行情) Grasberg mine in Indonesia’s Papua province, a company spokesman said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of attacks in the area.
Mindo Pangaribuan of PT Freeport Indonesia said the shooting had no impact on production [...]

Markus Junianto Sihaloho
The recent attacks in Papua, especially those around the Freeport mining complex, were aimed at provoking the military into committing human rights violations that would grab the attention of the international community, a military spokesman said on Tuesday.
Armed Forces (TNI) spokesman Brig. Gen. Christian Zebua said the perpetrators — who he referred to [...]

Violence flared again near the Freeport gold mine in Indonesia’s Papua province as gunmen shot and wounded two of the company’s employees, police said on Tuesday.
The injured men were in stable condition after being taken to a hospital, said police spokesman Agus Rianto. One was shot in the thigh and arm and the other was [...]

Violence flared again near the Freeport gold mine in Indonesia’s Papua province as gunmen shot and wounded two of the company’s employees, police said on Tuesday.
The injured men were in stable condition after being taken to a hospital, said police spokesman Agus Rianto. One was shot in the thigh and arm and the other was [...]

Unknown assailants shot and injured a senior military officer in the latest ambush near US-based Freeport McMoRan’s gold and copper mining concession in troubled Papua on Wednesday.
Freeport, in a statement to the Jakarta Globe, confirmed details of the attack, saying shots were fired at a security convoy near East Levee’s Kali Kopi area at about [...]