An American employee of US-based gold miner PT Freeport Indonesia was airlifted to Jakarta from Papua after he was injured in an attack on a convoy of the company’s vehicles on Sunday morning.
The employee, James Lockhart, was wounded in his left eye from broken glass when a group of unidentified people opened fire at Mile 60 of the access road to the company’s gold mine in Mimika regency.
Papua police spokesman Sr. Comr. Agus Rianto said two Mobile Brigade police officers involved in the incident were flown to Jakarta for treatments.
“[The officers] were admitted to the police hospital in Kramat Jati at about 10 a.m.,” Agus said.
A total of seven (not six as reported earlier) people were wounded in the shooting incident, including a child of a local Freeport employee. This was the first attack in the area after a few months of peace. A series of attacks on the company employees last year killed three people.
Only a few days ago Papua Police chief Insp. Gen. Bekto Suprapto told visiting American diplomats of improving security in the Freeport operational area. The diplomats also visited the Freeport site during their Papua visit.
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