Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – A Freeport employee suffered from a gunshot wound after yet another shooting around the company's mining area in Papua. Freeport McMoran spokesman Ramd ani Sirait confirmed the shooting, which took place around 2:40 p.m. on Wednesday in Tembagapura, Papua.

According to him, Abdul Simanjuntak was driving a Freeport company car along Jalan Kali Kopi when the car was shot at. Abdul was shot on the back and his colleague, Agus Patah, suffered from minor injuries.

Five bullet holes were seen on the windshield and another on the side of the car.

Sirait added that the shooting did not affect the company's operational activities. "Logistics and transportation are undisturbed," he said.

Papua Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Wachyono was not available for comments.

The Freeport mining complex and its employees have often been targeted by snipers. Police have alleged Papua separatists to be behind the attacks, which the separatists deny.

In January, gunmen fired at two buses and four other vehicles carrying Freeport employees and fam ily members on the highway between the mine and the town of Kuala Kencana, near Timika, where some Freeport staff live.

The injured included one American and one South African national working at the Grasberg gold and copper mine, the teenage daughter of a mine employee, as well as four Mobile Brigade police officers on security detail.