Telkomsel BTS tower shooting | |
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Part of the Papua conflict | |
Location | Beoga, Puncak Regency, Central Papua, Indonesia |
Date | 2 March 2022 03:00[1] (UTC+09:00) |
Target | PT Palapa Timur Telematika employees |
Attack type | attack on communications tower |
Weapons | Automatic firearms[2] |
Deaths | 8 |
Injured | 1 |
Perpetrators | West Papua Liberation Organization |
No. of participants | 12 |
On 2 March 2022, gunmen of the Free Papua Movement attacked and killed eight workers at a Telkomsel telecommunications facility (BTS 3) in Beoga, Puncak Regency, in the Central Papua province of Indonesia.[3]