TIMIKA: An Australian mining contractor was killed on Tuesday when his vehicle was knocked into a ravine by a landslide in Indonesia's remote eastern Papua province, a local police spokesman said.
The man, named as Davis Wayne, was killed after heavy rains triggered the 3am landslide at the mine, which belongs to US mining giant Freeport McMoRan.
"The landslide hit a passing Ford pickup which was driven by an Australian national," provincial police spokesman Wachyono said.
"The car fell about 150 metres down into a ravine. A rescue team is now working to evacuate the body."
The spokesman said Wayne worked for a firm that was contracted by Freeport Indonesia.
Freeport, which mines gold and copper, is the largest single taxpayer to the Indonesian government.
Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011
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