Police charge more suspects in deadly shootings at Freeport’s Indonesian gold mine

September 12th, 2009 Gunmen fire at bus, hurt 2 at US mine in IndonesiaJAKARTA, Indonesia — Gunmen fired at a bus carrying workers of U.S. mining giant Freeport on Saturday in Papua province, wounding two Indonesian security guards, police said.

July 27th, 2009 Freeport staff implicated in Indonesian shootingsJAKARTA, Indonesia — Police have charged two employees at U.S. company Freeport with alleged involvement in a spate of deadly shootings at the largest gold mine in the world, an official said Monday.

July 22nd, 2009 Freeport buses ambushed near Papua mine, 2 deadJAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia's state news agency says gunmen have fired on a convoy of 12 buses carrying employees of U.S. mining company Freeport in Papua, the latest attack on the world's largest gold mine.

July 22nd, 2009 Freeport's workers again under attack in IndonesiaJAKARTA, Indonesia — Three more people were wounded by gunfire Wednesday at the world's largest gold mine, the latest ambush targeting employees of U.S. conglomerate Freeport in Indonesia's underdeveloped Papua province.

July 22nd, 2009 More shooting on road to Freeport's Papua mineJAKARTA, Indonesia — Gunmen fired Wednesday at vehicles operated by U.S. mining company Freeport in Indonesia's impoverished Papua province, injuring two guards and a policeman in the latest attack on the world's largest gold mine, police said.

July 21st, 2009 Indonesia detains 17 suspects in Freeport killingsJAKARTA, Indonesia — Police detained 17 suspects believed involved in a series of deadly ambushes at the world's largest gold mine, an official said Tuesday. The men were rounded up Monday at several locations within a few miles of the Grasberg mining complex operated by U.S.

July 21st, 2009 Police detain 17 suspects in Freeport killingsJAKARTA, Indonesia — Police detained 17 suspects believed involved in a series of deadly ambushes at the world's largest gold mine earlier this month, an official said Tuesday. The men were rounded up Monday at several locations within a few miles of the Grasberg mining complex operated by U.S.

July 16th, 2009 Indonesia to boost police at Freeport mineJAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia is deploying police special forces to end a wave of deadly shootings at the world's largest gold mine run by U.S.-based Freeport in the remote Indonesian province of Papua, a police official said Thursday. A wave of attacks since Saturday along a road to the mine has marked the worst violence to hit Freeport's operations in the restive province since the murder of three teachers, including two Americans, in August 2002.

July 15th, 2009 Security suspected in Indonesia gold mine killingsJAKARTA, Indonesia — Deadly ambushes at the world's largest gold mine likely stem from rival Indonesian police and military forces who are competing for millions in illegal profits for protecting the industry, analysts said. Three people died and another seven were injured in weekend ambushes on a private road leading to the mountain mining town of Timika on Indonesia's easternmost island of Papua.

July 15th, 2009 A list of shootings at Freeport's Indonesian mineThe road to Freeport's gold mine in Indonesia's militarized Papua province has been the site of many deadly shootings since it opened four decades ago during the Suharto dictatorship. An overview based on information provided by the police, military and Freeport: — August 2002: An ambush on a convoy carrying schoolteachers to the Grasberg mining complex kills two Americans and an Indonesian.

July 15th, 2009 2 police wounded in new attack near Indonesia mineJAKARTA, Indonesia — Gunmen fired at police near the gold mining operations of U.S. company Freeport in the Indonesian province of Papua on Wednesday, wounding two officers, official said.

July 13th, 2009 Freeport mine ambushes kill 3 in IndonesiaJAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian authorities found the body of a policeman near the operations of U.S. mining conglomerate Freeport Monday, raising the death toll from a series of weekend ambushes to three, officials and state media said.

July 12th, 2009 Guard for US miner Freeport shot dead in IndonesiaJAKARTA, Indonesia — Gunmen killed a security guard working for U.S. mining conglomerate Freeport on Sunday, then ambushed police responding to the attack blamed on separatist rebels in one of Indonesia's most underdeveloped and remote regions.

July 12th, 2009 Autopsy conducted on Australian shot in IndonesiaJAKARTA, Indonesia — A 40-member team of police and forensics specialists arrived Sunday to investigate the deadly shooting of an Australian employee of U.S. mining giant Freeport in restive Papua province, officials said.

July 11th, 2009 American shot dead at Freeport mine in IndonesiaJAKARTA, Indonesia — Unknown assailants shot and killed a 29-year-old American working at Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.'s mine in Indonesia's restive Papua province on Saturday. The employee died after "a shot was fired" at a vehicle near the mine at dawn, Freeport said in a statement sent to The Associated Press.