Suspected rebels in restive Papua attack 2 COVID-19 medical workers

Gunmen believed to be separatist rebels on Saturday attacked two medical workers fighting the new coronavirus pandemic in Indonesia's restive province of Papua, killing one of them, police and military said.Col. Eko Daryanto, spokesman for Papua's Cendrawasih Military Regional Command, said the attack occurred around 1 p.m. when the workers, part of the province's task force for COVID-19 mitigation, were transporting medicine for infected patients in a remote village in Intan Jaya Regency.Papua Police spokesman Ahmad Musthofa Kamal said the injured worker, who heads the local public health …READ FULL ARTICLE