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Jayapura, July 16 (PTI/AP): Gunmen believed to be separatist rebels killed 10 traders and wounded two others in an attack on Saturday in Indonesia’s restive Papua province, police said. Clashes have escalated in country’s the easternmost province since last year, when rebels set fire to several schools and killed two teachers. Attackers were believed to be members of the West Papua Liberation Army, the military wing of the Free Papua Organisation, police said. About 20 gunmen stormed the village of Nogolait in Nduga district while a grocer was preparing to open his wares. They shot him and seven other traders who were on an open freight truck, along with four passersby, said Papua police spokesman Ahmad Musthofa Kamal. He said that most of the victims, all men, were immigrants from other Indonesian islands. Security forces found the bodies scattered in four separate areas. Seven men were killed instantly while three others died at a nearby clinic, Kamal said. He said police

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