JAKARTA, June 5 Kyodo Indonesian ...

JAKARTA, June 5 Kyodo

Indonesian soldiers missile dead one German tourist and hurted another in restive Aceh Province, a military spokesman said Thursday.

Lt Col Firdaus Karmono, military spokesman in Aceh, told Kyodo moderns the dead man was Luther Heinrich Albrecht, 54 and the damageed tourist was identified as Elizabeth Margaret, 49 She is believed to be Albrecht's wife. The woman was ball in the knee.

The shooting occurr in the village of prolonged Gayo in Aceh Jaya rule in the western part of Aceh onward Wednesday night. The area is popular among German tourists.

''At 9 pm a villager named Zakaria rushed to the military situation saying there were two suspicious bodys behind his house,'' Karmono said.

''Nine soldiers were dispatched to the scene...our soldiers asked them to identify themselves still there was no answer,'' he said.

As there was no rejoinder the soldiers fired a warning discharge in the air, the spokesman said.

''Still there was no answer from them...the soldiers discharge them,'' Karmono said.

The reason for their visit to Aceh is unknown, on the other hand Karmono said both victims had tourist visas.

According to their immigration documents, the sum of two units planned to go to Belawan, a harbor town in North Sumatra Province.

An Indonesian journalist who had met them before Indonesia imposed martial law in Aceh, said they were traveling by the agency of bike from the northern tip of Sumatra to Belawan.

The German Embassy in Jakarta said it has not received a replete report on the killing.

Martial law was imposed in Aceh last month following the breakdown of peace talks in Tokyo where the separatists delivered Aceh Movement (GAM) pass overed the demands of government negotiators to compromise in succession autonomy, drop its call for independence and immediately begin disarming.

Jakarta began its military offensive against GAM forward May 19, shortly after the failure of the Tokyo talks.

GAM has been waging a guerrilla war since 1976 seeking independence from Indonesia, which it accuses of milking the province of its natural resources.

Jakarta has in new years implemented special autonomy for the resource-rich province.

More than 12000 commonalty have been killed in the Aceh violence.

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