PNG Rebels Kill New Zealand Helicopter Pilot

Several gunmen thought to be with the West Papua Liberation Army (TPNPB)—the armed wing of the Free Papua Movement—have stormed a helicopter carrying health workers and two children as it landed in Alama, a remote village in Mimika district of Central Papua province on Monday. The area can only be accessed by helicopter. They killed the pilot—New Zealander Glen Malcolm Conning, 50—but released the Indigenous Papuan passengers before setting fire to the plane with the body inside. The TPNPB claimed it had not received a report of the incident and could not comment on the killing of the pilot. However, Faizal Ramadhani, a National Police officer who heads the joint security peace force in Papua, confirmed the attack had happened....