17 July 2024
8 July 2024
22 July 2024
1 June 2024
23 May 2024
30 May 2024
16 May 2024
27 April 2024
12 April 2024
15 April 2024
29 April 2024
26 April 2024
3 April 2024
9 April 2024
10 October 2023
17 January 2023
11 November 2022
The newspaper, The National, reports that the inter-tribal fighting started on Tuesday.
The Lae police operation commander, Timothy Pomoso, says the fighting between people from two Highlands tribes has injured at least 17 people and several homes have been burned to the ground.
Security at the city’s hospital where the injured are being taken has been ramped up because of the fighting.
He says high-powered guns have been used in the clashes and one police vehicle was damaged after it was shot in the windscreen.
Pomoso says extra police manpower is being sought to launch a full-scale operation to return law and order to the suburb.
- RNZI