Gunmen kill 3 at Freeport mine in Indonesia - police
Freeport is facing a prolonged strike at its giant Grasberg
mine, but it was not clear if the shooting was linked to that
dispute or to a simmering independence movement in the remote
region. One protester was killed earlier this week.”We confirm that there was a shooting and we’re
investigating it,” a police spokesman in the Mimika capital of
Timika said.Two army officers and two company security risk management
officers were shot and wounded when they came to investigate,
police said.”We are working with the police and security personnel to
address the situation,” said Freeport Indonesia spokesman
Ramdani Sirait told Reuters.An eight-day strike at Grasberg in July led the company to
suffer a production loss of 35 million lb (15,876 tonnes) of
copper and 60,000 ounces of gold.The current two-month strike by unionised workers, about half
of Freeport’s 23,000 Indonesian workers, is the longest stoppage
in Indonesia’s mining industry.
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