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AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, Saturday December 28, 2002 4:41 PM

Two women shot in Indonesia's Papua province

Two women, one of them the wife of a human rights campaigner, were shot and wounded in Indonesia's Papua province, an activist said.

The women, Else Bonai and Merauje, were travelling on a public minivan near the border with Papua New Guinea when shots were fired at them, said Aloy Renwarin of Papua's human rights group Elsham.

The shots came from the bush near the border, Renwarin told AFP.

Else, the wife of Elsham director Johannes Bonai, suffered wounds on both legs while bullets hit Merauje in the left leg and hand. Both were undergoing surgery at the army hospital in the provincial capital Jayapura.

"It was the work of professionals," Renwarin said.

On August 31 gunmen opened fire on buses near the US-owned Freeport gold and copper mine in Papua, killing two US teachers and an Indonesian colleague and injuring 18 others.

Papua deputy police chief Brigadier General Raziman Tarigan has said that Kopassus special forces soldiers were suspected of having carried out the attack.

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