Troops capture Fretelin rebel

Troops capture Fretelin rebel

DILI, East Timor: In a skirmish last week with a group of
separatist rebels in Baucau, about 200 kilometers east of here,
troops are reported to have captured one member of the Fretelin
organization.

Col. Kiki Syahnakri, chief of the Wira Dharma military command
overseeing security in East Timor, said Clementino, the man
captured, was now in a Dili hospital being treated for bullet
wounds received on his leg.

"Journalists may go and see him in the hospital," he said.

The authorities seized a gun, one hand grenade and 10 bullets
from the 36-year-old Clementino, he said.

He said the capture of Clementino reduced the number of
guerrillas still at large to 187 in possession of 106
rifles.(yac)