Timika, Papua (ANTARA News) - The bodies of two employees of PT Freeport Indonesia, Daniel Mansawan and Hari Siregar, who were shot to death on Thursday were flown from Tembagapura to the Kuala Kencana funeral home here on Saturday.

Daniel and Hari would later be flown respectively to their home towns in Jayapura and Jakarta for burial on Monday, ANTARA learned.

Daniel and Hari, respectively manager and chief guard of PT Freeport Indonesia`s Security Risk Management (SRM), died after they were shot and their car was torched by unidentified assailants at Tanggul Timur Mile 37 MA 220 on Thursday night.

Hundreds of PT Freeport employees staged a demonstration to show their solidarity with the victims in front of the PT Freeport office in Kuala Kencana on Saturday after they carried out a religious service led by Rev. Sam Koibur.

They put up a white cloth full of signatures of PT Freeport employees on the wall of PT Freeport office in Kuala Kencana urging the management and security authorities to investigate the shooting to death and burning of their two colleagues.

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