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Efforts underway for release of NZ pilot kidnapped in PNG

17:51 pm on 8 February 2023

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Diplomatic efforts are underway to try to secure the release of a New Zealand pilot taken hostage by Papuan rebels. Captain Philip Mehrtens was flying for Indonesia's Susi Air when he was captured by separatists who torched his plane, and say that his life is at stake, and dependent on negotiations with Jakarta. Jean Edwards reports.