Motorcycle taxi driver shot by man in Papua

A motorcycle taxi driver is in hospital after being shot by an unidentified man for no apparent reason, Papua Police say.

Police said that the victim, Daeng Yonri, was being treated in hospital.

“Daeng Yonri has been severely wounded. Now we are trying all we can to save him,” Papua Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Wachyono said on Thursday.

He said a team of police officers and army soldiers were hunting the perpetrators.

Wachyono said Yonri was the third shooting victim so far this month.

The other shooting victims, both killed, are a civilian identified as Kismarovit and First. Brig. Sukarno, a member of the Papua Mobile Brigade (Brimob).