A Catholic teacher was killed and seven other people injured in an attack by separatists on a school in the Papua Highlands province of Indonesia.

The attack took place in the Anggruk district on March 21 by the pro-independence group known as the Eden Sawi-cum-Sisipa Battalion, police said in a statement on 24 March.

Rosalia Rerek Sogen, 30, from the Diocese of Larantuka, died in the raid in which the seven other teachers and health workers were injured, some seriously.

The group was going about their daily duties, when they were suddenly ambushed by members of the separatist armed group.