A helicopter pilot from New Zealand has been killed in the Indonesian region of Papua

Glen Malcolm Conning, 50, was killed by a pro-independence group known as Free Papua Organisation (OPM)

OPM spokesman Sebby Sambom told the BBC that he had not been able to verify the Indonesian authorities' claim

It comes nearly a year and a half after the abduction of another pilot from New Zealand, Phillip Mehrtens, who remains in captivity.