Third death at Freeport mine
Tuesday, July 14 2009 - 01:19 AM WIB
A policeman was found dead Monday with sharp wound around his neck, the third victim in a series of terror attack near the site of copper and gold mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia, a subsidiary of U.S. copper and gold giant Freeport-McMoRan in Papua during the past week, AFP reported
The body of Marsom Patipulohi found roughly 20 kilometers from the site where 29-year-old Australian Freeport technician Drew Nicholas Grant was killed Saturday, and a Freeport guard was killed in a firefight Sunday.
National police spokesman Nanan Soekarna said Marsom had tried to flee the "unidentified attackers," who opened fire on the police vehicle but fell into a ravine and died.
A spokesman for PT Freeport Indonesia said earlier that mining operations hadn't been affected by the latest attacks, as they "took place far from the mine." (*)