Five more people including two soldiers and a separatist rebel have been killed in the Indonesian province of Aceh, the military and residents said.
Prosecutors are meanwhile studying police reports on two foreign women who have been detained in Aceh since September 11 to decide whether to charge them with visa violations, said Zainal Said of the Aceh prosecutor's office.
Two guerrillas shot dead an army sergeant who was riding home on his motorcycle at Ubit Paya Itek in North Aceh district on Tuesday, said provincial military spokesman Major Zaenal Mutaqin.
A second sergeant was shot dead when rebels ambushed an army patrol at Lokop in East Aceh late Monday evening, Mutaqin said. The separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) was blamed for the attacks.
Police on Tuesday shot dead a suspected GAM member in downtown Lhokseumawe, the main town in North Aceh district, said Aceh police spokesman Commissioner Taufik Sutiyono.
"He had to be shot because he tried to escape with two other men after extorting some local people," Sutiyono said, adding that the two others escaped.
Residents at Peusangan in Bireuen district also said they found the bodies of two men with gunshot wounds on Tuesday. The local GAM spokesman, Tjut Manyak, said they were civilians shot dead by troops that day. Mutaqin could not immediately comment on the incident.
Three prosecutors are studying the police dossiers on British academic researcher Lesley McCulloch, 42 and American nurse Joy Ernestine Sadler, 52, Said told AFP. The team would decide in one week whether additional information is required or whether the dossiers are enough to prepare charges.
Said indicated that charges would be pressed. He said they would be charged with visa violations, punishable by up to five years in jail. Indonesian authorities had earlier tried to pursue espionage charges against McCulloch but have since dropped the plan.
Said has said the file aginst McCulloch is filled with alleged notes she made on "state secrets" – specifically the strength and movements of security forces. It also contained copies of newspaper articles by McCulloch, photographs of victims of violence and photographs of her with GAM leaders, he has said.
McCulloch was until recently a university lecturer in Tasmania and is a frequent writer on the Aceh dispute to Asian newspapers.
An estimated 10,000 people have died since GAM began its fight in 1976 for a free state in the energy-rich province on Sumatra island. Rights activists put the toll for this year alone at around 1,000.