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Sep 4 8 A Monday, September 2. 2002 NE\\\ THE battalion Police kill suspected shooter in Indonesia TIMIKA, Indonesia (AP) — Government forces shot and killed a man they suspect in the fatal shooting of two U.S. teach ers and one Indonesian in Papua province, and troops on Sunday searched through jungles and thick fog for a band of separatist insurgents thought to be behind police chief. Brig. Gen. I Made Pastika, said a soldier was wounded in the exchange of tire with gunmen. Police claim that about 15 rebels took part in Saturday's attack, which also wounded 10 people, a few miles from the Grasberg mine, Phe mine has the world’s largest deposits of led Burgon and Kicke\ Spear were teachers at a school atife mine, and six of those wminder were also Americans. Burnt was earlier identified as Burccr hut his family called to cone- the spelling. The six wounded Ament® and two injured Indonesia Saturday’s ambush on a con gold and ranks second in copper. where two und erwent imnxc voy close to a huge gold and “We are going all out to catch ate i surgery at Townsvii* copper mine operated by a U.S. the people behind this act of ter Hospi Queer tal in (hi c far north corporation highlighted the ror,” Simbolon told rcpiwtcrv island stai le. One wonu Indonesian government’s tenu Some 250 troops were reman tied in se nous conditicr ous hold over the region and searching the surrounding jun Suiuia \ night. underlined the risks for foreign gles. though officers said thick Tb c two otht *r\ injured wr- businesses investing in outlying fog was hampering the hum. Mown to Jakarta . the Indoncsii Indonesian provinces. The ambush was the blixxli- capita 1. Maj. Gen. Mahidin est incident involving foreigners Trc x>ps also t onioned off & Simbolon, the Papua regional in almost four decades of inter mine. which 1 las long her military chief, said the suspect mittent warfare between govern v tcwci d by Papu ans as a symb ed insurgent was killed in a ment forces and separatist rebels of !m Jonesia’s occupation e; shootout Sunday morning near in Papua. mic cxpli dilation of & the site of the ambush. Papua’s The two slain Americans. rcvoiir ce-rich pn >Vince. West Nile Continued from page 1 pool covers, buckets, barrels and cans w ith stand ing water and clean out rain gutters that might contain water. Olson said. Anyone who experiences flu-like symptoms for more than a couple of days should contact a doctor. West Nile has proven most deadly in the elderly and in children, but 18 to 30-ycar-olds arc also at risk for developing a serious condition. The Southern House mosquito carrici Nile. These mosquitoes tend to breed in such as polluted puddles and dilapidated ground water lines. Olson said. They live span of a month and fly in a half-mile to a mile radius. Also found in Brazos County as a carrier of the virus is the Asian Tiger mosquito, which likes to bite in the late afternoon, Olson said. “These mosquitoes will breed in something as little as a footprint,” Plitt said. Mosquitoes become infected with the virus when they feed on infected birds, which then can infect humans, Olson said. If they get trapped inside a house or dt feed on if humans g To date, 65 cooni live for the West Nik Panhandle and East West Nile has humans, birds and Eastern Europe. We but until 1999 had n West daces >nlv a i they have nothing digs . in Texas have tested po irus, extending as farasij ;en commonly found rj her vertebrates in Aina Asia and the Middle Ei* dW had not previously been docum® Western Hemisphere. It is not law l S. v mis originated from, but it isnv' Iaicit genetically to strains foundmb t BI s made a ’C pattern actovs the Uflfc trting in the cast and making its «] the last three y ears.” Olson said. * fall begins and the weather cools, .till be a threat here, Olson said. 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