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Shooting at protest in Indonesia's Papua, police say three dead

Shooting at protest in Indonesia's Papua, police say three dead. [Photo: Courtesy]

Shooting broke out at a protest in Indonesia’s easternmost province of Papua on Wednesday, and police there said that one soldier and two protesters had been killed.

A news website earlier said that as many as six people had been killed, but the army dismissed that as “a hoax”.

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