Body recovered of New Zealand pilot killed in Papua region of Indonesia

Bayu Suseno, spokesman for the Cartenz 2024 Peace Task Force, holds a portrait of Glen Malcolm Conning after the pilot’s body was recovered (Indonesian Police via AP/PA)

Tue, 06 Aug, 2024 - 17:26

Alfian Kartono, Associated Press

Indonesian security forces have recovered the body of a New Zealand pilot who was killed in an alleged separatist attack in the restive Papua region, according to officials.

Glen Malcolm Conning, a helicopter pilot for Indonesian aviation company PT Intan Angkasa Air Service, was shot dead on Monday by gunmen allegedly with the West Papua Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Free Papua Movement, shortly after landing in Alama, a remote district in the Mimika regency of Central Papua province.