Jakarta – A second day of clashes between local tribesmen and migrants in the mining town of Timika in Indonesia's remote Irian Jaya province killed four people, raising the death toll in two days to 14, reports and a tribal activist said Friday.

Irian Jaya Police Spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Danier Suripatty said in Jayapura, the capital of Irian Jaya, that four people were killed and 10 others seriously injured in Timika on Friday.

Suripatty was quoted by the Antara news agency as saying the clashes flared again on Friday after the discovery of a the body of a loal tribesman in the Kwamki Lama neighbourhood.

Local tribesmen paraded the body towards Timika but the convoy was pelted with rocks on the way and clashes ensued, he said. Several houses and shops were also stoned and a vehicle torched, he added.

On Thursday 10 people were killed in clashes between tribesmen and migrants, activists said. Press reports had put Thursday's toll at five. "Reports we have received say that 10 people have been killed from both sides in yesterday's [Thursday's] clashes," an activist of the Amungme Tribal Consultative Institute (Lemasa) told AFP by telephone from Timika.

The first two victims Thursday were Irianese who were stabbed to death by men from the Bugis migrant community from South Sulawesi during a dispute in downtown Timika after dusk Thursday.

Reports of the incident quickly spread, prompting anger from the local tribesmen who attacked the Buginese, who later rallied with other migrants and fought back, the activist, who identified himself only as George, said. "Some of the victims fell after the Indonesian military intervened," he said.

A district police sergeant, Agus, earlier Firday had declined comment other than to say the city was still tense and most officers remained on site to restore order.

The Jakarta Post quoted a sergeant of the Timika sub-district police as saying five people, all migrants, were killed by tribesman late on Thursday. The two Irianese stabbed in the initial incident were merely wounded, he said.

The sergeant said a public market and a bus terminal were torched during the clashes. "Timika is tense and deserted today [Friday]. There are no shops open and no public transportation," George said.

Timika is one of the main cities in the area of the huge Freeport gold and copper mine.