"Miner shot dead in Indonesian strike", 10 Oct 2011

Indonesian police have shot and killed one protester and wounded at least six others when they clashed with striking workers at a mine run by US company Freeport McMoran, a union official said. More than 1,000 workers were involved in the clashes on Monday at the Grasberg complex, one of the world’s biggest gold and copper mines, in Indonesia’s Papua province. “A protester was killed from a gunshot fired by police and another was shot in the chest,” Virgo Solossa, an official for the mine workers’ union, said. He identified the dead man as 30-year-old Petrus Ayemsekaba. A doctor at a local hospital confirmed that one person was killed by a gunshot. Union leader Manuel Maniambo said thousands of striking workers were trying to prevent replacement workers from heading by bus to the mine, high up in the mountains... Slowing production at Grasberg, coupled with a spate of strikes at Freeport’s South American mines, has raised concerns of a global copper shortage, analysts have said.