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[March 16, 2006]

DJ Indonesian Police Fire Tear Gas At Protesters Of US Mine

(Comtex Business Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)JAYAPURA, Indonesia, Mar 16, 2006 (Dow Jones Commodities News Select via Comtex) --Police fired tear gas on dozens of rock-throwing protesters demanding the closure of a U.S.-owned gold mine in Papua province Thursday, witnesses said. Several people were injured.


It was the third day of violent protests against the mine run by the New Orleans-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.

The clashes took place outside the campus of a major university in the provincial capital of Jayapura.


An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw several people with injuries sustained from flying rocks.

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

03-16-06 0000ET

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