Banda Aceh – A female student was shot dead and a soldier was wounded in the latest violence to hit the troubled Indonesian province of Aceh, the military and residents said on Sunday.

A 20-minute clash erupted between soldiers and suspected separatist rebels in the Tamiang Hulu area of the district of East Aceh on Saturday, military spokesman Maj. Zaenal Muttaqin said as quoted by AFP.

The clash followed an ambush by some 30 rebels from the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) on a routine 15-man military patrol in the area, Muttaqin said.

In another incident, unidentified gunmen shot dead a 22-year-old woman, who was a student at an Islamic academy, behind her house in Alue Krueb in the district of Bireun late on Saturday, residents there told a local journalist.

The woman was dragged behind her house by the three unidentified gunmen and shot three times in the head, residents said. The assailants fled the scene after the shooting, which local police and GAM sources could not immediately confirm.