Security forces evacuated the workers from an area where they were searching for a New Zealand pilot taken hostage by separatist rebels of the West Papua Liberation Army
(Picture: AP)A kidnapped New Zealand pilot has been moved deeper into the West Papau New Guinea jungle after rebels set fire to his plane and took him hostage.
Philip Mehrtens, from Christchurch, was captured early Tuesday by independence fighters from the West Papua Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Free Papua Organization, who stormed his single-engine plane shortly after it landed at Paro’s small airport.
