New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has been freed more than 19 months after being kidnapped by armed separatists in Indonesia ...
Phillip Mehrtens was taken hostage in 2023 when he landed a small commercial plane in the remote, "restive" region of Papua, a "resource-rich former Dutch colony" that is part of modern-day ...
At least one Indonesian soldier has been killed in a rebel attack while searching for a kidnapped New Zealand ... of a detachment sent to locate Phillip Mehrtens, who was taken hostage in February.
New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has been freed after ... An armed faction of the West Papua National Liberation Army ...
Philip Mehrtens was kidnapped by West Papua National Liberation Army fighters in February 2023 and was released after lengthy negotiations into the care of Indonesian officials on Saturday.
Phillip Mehrtens, who was 37 when he was kidnapped, originally trained as a pilot in New Zealand and had lived in Bali with his family in recent years. Mehrtens is a husband and father from ...
New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has been freed more than 19 months after being kidnapped by armed separatists in Indonesia’s Papua, authorities said on Saturday. Mehrtens was freed and picked ...
The family of a kidnapped New Zealand pilot on Sunday thanked the Indonesian rebels who released him for taking care of him during more than a year and a half in captivity. Phillip Mehrtens ...
Independence fighters led by Egianus Kogoya, a regional commander in the Free Papua Movement, stormed a single-engine plane on a small runway in Paro and abducted Philip Mark Mehrtens on Feb. 7 ...
New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has been freed more than 19 months after being kidnapped by armed separatists in Indonesia's Papua, authorities said on Saturday. Mr Mehrtens was freed and picked up ...
New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has been freed after more than 18 ... An armed faction of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) kidnapped Mehrtens on February 7, 2023, after he landed a ...