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Two injured in Freeport bus shooting
At least two people were injured as a group of unidentified persons attacked a PT Freeport Indonesia security bus on Saturday at Mile 42, both of whom were rushed to the Kuala Kencana clinic for intensive care, a police officer has said
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t least two people were injured as a group of unidentified persons attacked a PT Freeport Indonesia security bus on Saturday at Mile 42, both of whom were rushed to the Kuala Kencana clinic for intensive care, a police officer has said.
The two victims were Jelke Pangkarago, who suffered an injury to his thigh, and Anselmus Gau whose right temple was severely wounded from broken glasses.
"The attacked occurred at about 8:50 local time," Papua Police public relations division head Sr. Comr. Agus Rianto told The Jakarta Post by phone on Saturday.
He added that the bus was heading to Mile 50 after departing from Mile 34 when the attack occurred between Mile 42 and Mile 43. The perpetrators had shot at the bus from the forest, Agus said.
The bus was carrying the company's 12 security personnel and two cleaning service employees, he said.
Police are currently intensifying the investigations into the case. At about 11 a.m. local time the same day, for example, the Amole Timika Police secured the entrance to the company compound. They also continued to hunt for the perpetrators.
Rianto said the area between Mile 41 and Mile 43 was geographically advantageous to any perpetrators wanting to attack passing Freeport vehicles, making it an area prone to attacks.
Rianto, however, assured that the access road from Timika to Tembagapura was secured.
Last week another group of unidentified persons also attacked a military vehicle belonging to the Tembagapura Military Command between Mile 41 and 42.
Shootings at the Freeport Indonesia mining site have been reported repeatedly since July this year, despite some 1,320 Amole Timika Police personnel having been deployed to secure the area.
At present there is only one access road to the Freeport Indonesia site, which has so far been the main road to transport all of the company's logistics needs from Amamapare Port to Grasberg.
