Rebels shoot Marine in Aceh

BANDA ACEH: The latest gunfight between security troops and armed Free Aceh Movement (GAM) separatist rebels over the weekend left a Marine Corps officer wounded.

Spokesman for the Aceh security operation command Maj. Zaenal Mutaqin said on Saturday that First Lt. Martin Luther Ginting had sustained a gunshot wound to his stomach during an exchange of fire that had followed a military search of a GAM base in Matang Guruh village in North Aceh, some 330 kilometers east of here.

Zainal told Antara that Martin had been admitted to a military hospital in Lhokseumawe, the capital of North Aceh. -- Antara