Covid-19 opens world´s biggest gold mine to attack
(WorldNews Indonesia)

JAKARTA - Preoccupied with a coronavirus outbreak, Indonesian security officials were caught off guard when at least three gunmen penetrated the US-based Freeport mining company´s residential housing area on Papua´s south coast, killing a New Zealand employee and wounding six other local workers. The March 30 attack near the city of Timika was the most audacious yet by suspected members of the rebel West Papuan Liberation Army (TPNB), the armed wing of the Free Papua Movement (OPM), which has waged a war for independence since the 1960s. It is not expected to affect work at the Grasberg, the world´s largest copper and gold mine, although it comes at a time when production is down by more...