Two Amerincans Killed, Six Wounded in Indonesia

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Two Amerincans Killed, Six Wounded in Indonesia

Some gunmen Saturday ambushed a convoy headed to a huge gold mine run by a U.S. corporation in Indonesia's Papua province with two Americans and an Indonesian killed, sources said.

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Some gunmen Saturday ambushed a convoy headed to a huge gold mine run by a U.S. corporation in Indonesia's Papua province with two Americans and an Indonesian killed, sources said.

Fourteen others, including six U.S. citizens, were wounded in the attack near the world's largest gold mine while the convoy of cars was headed from the town of Timika to the Grasberg mine, an immense open-pit dig.

No group claimed responsibility for the attack, though Papua police chief said it was possible that the separatist Free Papua Movement was involved, according to AP.

A police statement identified the dead as Ted Burcon and Rickey Spear, both Americans, and Bambang Riwanto, an Indonesian. Their hometowns were not released.

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