3 Aug 2017

One man dead, several injured in West Papua police shooting

From , 5:05 am on 3 August 2017

Reports from West Papua say one man is dead and up to 16 people have been injured, two of them young teenagers, in a police shooting.

A human rights lawyer Veronica Koman says four of the injured have been airlifted to hospital in Nabire nuh-beer-eh, a town in Indonesia's Papua province .

She has spoken with an eyewitness to yesterday's incident who says police fired on the group attacking the premises of a company in Deiyai day-eye District.

The company had reportedly refused to lend them a car to transport a drowning victim, who had died while they tried to get him to hospital..

Ms Koman told Sally Round the force used was disproportionate.

This photo taken on April 1, 2017 shows an Indonesian anti-terror police unit during a training exercise in Banda Aceh.

This photo taken on April 1, 2017 shows an Indonesian anti-terror police unit during a training exercise in Banda Aceh. Photo: CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP