Who has claimed responsibility for the US miner who was shot dead in freeport?
A security guard working for U.S. mining giant Freeport was killed and seven other people were injured Sunday in a pair of attacks by suspected rebels in Indonesia’s restive Papua province, police and company officials said. The assaults were in the same area where authorities were investigating the fatal shooting a day earlier of a 29-year-old Australian working for the company, Freeport said in a statement to The Associated Press. The escalation in violence in one of the nation’s most underdeveloped and remote regions is an unwelcome development for Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who was re-elected just last week to a second 5-year-term. It also raised questions about a possible resurgence of Papua’s secessionist movement, which until recent months had shown few signs of life. The security guard, working on a contract for Freeport, was killed in an ambush by suspected rebels Sunday morning when “shots were fired at two security vehicles,” Freeport said in a statement.
