A rebel group in Indonesia’s Western New Guinea said it had ordered the release of Christchurch-born pilot Phillip Mertens, who was taken hostage by a year ago at Paro in Highland Papua.
He was seized on February 7, 2023, during a Susi Air commercial service supplying remote communities in the
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