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JAKARTA - Two small bombs went off early Friday on a road leading to a massive mine operated by Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. in eastern Indonesia and a third unexploded mortar round was found nearby, police said. No one was injured and there was little damage. The near-simultaneous explosions targeted a bridge and a nearby security post 15 kilometers from the Grasberg mine in Papua province, said PT Freeport Indonesia spokesman, Mindo Pangaribuan, refusing to elaborate until the police probe was complete.
"We can only say that the incident did not disturb our operations," he said. "Things are running normally." Papua is home to separatist rebels who have long denounced the mine as a symbol of Jakarta's rule over the region and were blamed for a 2004 attack on the same road that left two Americans dead. Indonesian security forces hired by Freeport were initially suspected of taking part in those killings to extort higher protection payments from the New Orleans-based company.
"An unidentified group was trying to attack Freeport's facilities," said military Lt. Col. Tri Suseno, as more than a dozen members of the country's elite anti-terrorism unit arrived, discovering a third unexploded mortar under a bridge. Police chief Maj. Gen. Bagus Ekodanto said a little-known group calling itself the West Papua National Army had circulated pamphlets in recent days demanding the mine's closure, but that it was not yet clear if the events were related.
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