AN Australian aid adviser in
A spokesperson for the Australian High Commission confirmed the victim, a man in his 50s, worked for
“An Australian man had his car stolen in a car-jacking on Thursday evening in
“He sustained serious injuries during the assault.”
The man was discharged from a
The spokesman would not disclose any more details for privacy reasons but said PNG police were investigating.
AAP also understands that at the weekend another Australian official was involved in an unsuccessful car-jacking by a gang of youths.
The attacks occurred in the same time frame as a fierce tribal fight in
The fight erupted at a popular market on Thursday afternoon but retaliation attacks continued until Sunday.
Chief Superintendent Joseph Tondop called for calm in the wake of the “animalistic and barbaric” clashes that included a beheading and several dismembered bodies.
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“It is very dangerous for such ethnic violence to erupt in
The clash involved two
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In November last year a young group of Australian volunteers travelling in Madang, on PNG’s northeast coast, were car-jacked, tied up and robbed, with one woman raped. – AAP
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