{"id":54396,"date":"2023-04-17T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T23:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/17\/six-soldiers-killed-30-missing-in-attempt-to-rescue-kidnapped-pilot-in-west-papua"},"modified":"2023-04-17T08:00:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T23:00:50","slug":"six-soldiers-killed-30-missing-in-attempt-to-rescue-kidnapped-pilot-in-west-papua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54396","title":{"rendered":"Six soldiers killed, 30 missing in attempt to rescue kidnapped pilot in West Papua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Separatist rebels confronted Indonesian army troops as they searched for New Zealander who was taken hostage in February<\/p>\n<p>Separatist gunmen attacked Indonesian army troops who were deployed to rescue a New Zealand pilot taken hostage by the rebels in Indonesia\u2019s restive Papua province, leaving at least six dead and about 30 missing, officials said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Initial information from army reports said there were about 36 soldiers at a post in the hilly district of Nduga, when attackers from the West Papua Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Free Papua Movement, opened fire on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/17\/six-soldiers-killed-30-missing-in-attempt-to-rescue-kidnapped-pilot-in-west-papua\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Separatist rebels confronted Indonesian army troops as they searched for New Zealander who was taken hostage in FebruarySeparatist gunmen attacked Indonesian army troops who were deployed to rescue a New Zealand pilot taken hostage by the rebels in Ind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,156,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54397,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54396\/revisions\/54397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}