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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