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New Zealand Hostage Pictured With Armed Captors in Indonesia’s Papua Region

TERRIFYING

Philip Mehrtens was kidnapped and his plane was burned last week.

Dan Ladden-Hall
Dan Ladden-Hall 

Breaking News Editor

New Zealand pilot Philip Mehrtens appears alongside captors in Papua, Indonesia.
West Papua National Liberation Army Facebook
Dan Ladden-Hall

Dan Ladden-Hall

Breaking News Editor

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