Six more killed in conflict-ridden Aceh<\/p>\n
BANDA ACEH, Aceh: At least six male bodies were removed from
\njungle-clad Kaway XVI district in West Aceh regency on Friday and
\nSunday, Red Cross workers said on Monday.<\/p>\n
The chief of Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) in Meulaboh,
\nRasmuddin, said that the bodies were recovered from deep in the
\njungle of Kaway, about a 15-kilometer, half-a-day walk from the
\nnearest village.<\/p>\n
A PMI team and locals on Sunday began the search for four
\nresidents who went missing in the jungle on Friday. The missing
\nlocals were collecting rattan from the forest.<\/p>\n
The decomposing bodies of the four men were found with cuts
\nand bruises all over their bodies. The four were identified as
\nAmren, 50, Khairul, 22, Saiful, 50, and Zainal, 18. All of them
\nwere villagers of Teupin Panah in Kaway XVI district in West
\nAceh.<\/p>\n
Locals and PMI workers placed the bodies in rugs and passed
\nthe remains across a ravine and down a hill.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Friday, PMI workers removed two other bodies from
\nthe vicinity of the location of the four corpses. The two bodies
\nwere later identified as Zainuddin, 50, and Nyak Raden, 30, both
\nfrom Cot Trueng village in Kaway XVI district, also in West Aceh.<\/p>\n
No official confirmation was immediately available, but it was
\nreported that residents heard gunshots coming from the woods on
\nFriday.-- JP<\/p>",
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