REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAYAPURA - The bodies of two police officers Zulkifli and Prayoga shot dead by suspected separatists were in the process of evacuation to Jayapura, Papua, on Tuesday.

The body of the Zulkifly was in the process of evacuation from Wamena and that of Prayoga from Tiom to Wamena and from Wamena to the provincial city, Deputy chief of the Papua police Brig. Gen. Paulus Waterpaw said on Tuesday.  Evacuation of the two bodies to Jayapura could not be made at once as the body of Prayoga was found only on Monday afternoon that it could not be carried to Wamena at once, Waterpaw said.

"Hopefully the process of evacuation could be carried out without incident," he said.

The two were killed in an ambush in the regency of Lanny Jaya at Jalan Pirime leading to Maki where Papua police chief Ins. Gen Tito Karnavian and his party were attacked by a group of armed civilians in 2012.