JP/5/CONTACT Army officer shot along RI-ET border KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: An Army officer was injured after being shot on Thursday by an unknown assailant on the Indonesia- East Timor border.

The incident took place when a group of TNI soldiers led by First. Lt. Teddy Setyawan spotted a group of nine people allegedly attempting to smuggle fuel into East Timor from Lamaknen district in Belu regency.

The soldiers managed to arrest them, but some got away and fled into East Timor territory. Seconds later, a gunshot was heard and Teddy fell to the ground with a bullet in his thigh, said the chief of Indonesian Border Security Task Force, Lt. Col. Yul Aviandi.

Teddy was later airlifted to Jakarta for treatment. -- JP