Four rebels killed in clash in Indonesia's Papua region


Activists display placards at a rally in front of the Netherlands embassy in Jakarta on March 12, to draw awareness to Indonesia's Papua region. Four Papuan independence fighters were killed in an ongoing clash between security forces and a rebel group near the world's largest gold mine in Indonesia's easternmost Papua region, police and rebels said on Monday (March 16).

TIMIKA: Four Papuan independence fighters were killed in an ongoing clash between security forces and a rebel group near the world's largest gold mine in Indonesia's easternmost Papua region, police and rebels said on Monday (March 16).

The clashes, which began Feb. 29 near the Grasberg copper and gold mine in Papua province, earlier killed two security personnel and injured three others.

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