Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Four killed, two knifed in Western Highlands

By JAMES APA GUMUNO

 

FOUR people were killed and two men were stabbed between Christmas and New Year in the Western Highlands, The National reports.

Two women were killed after having domestic arguments with two other women over their husbands at Kindeng and Kaiwe in the South-Waghi and Hagen districts respectively.

One man was killed at Bunowau, North Waghi, after an argument with another group over a piece of land while a young man from Lenki village in the Wabag, Enga, who worked as a waiter at the Highlander Hotel in Mt Hagen city was killed by some drunken youths at Mt Hagen Tee School.

Provincial police commander Supt Kaiglo Ambane said yesterday that two women who killed the other women over their husbands surrendered to the police and were now in police custody.

Ambane said police are still investigating the two other murders that occurred at Tee School and at Bunowau.

He said that one man from Moge tribe living at the back of Holy Trinity Teachers college was stabbed with a knife in a drunken brawl while another drunken man was stabbed at Kaiwe market after he smashed a windscreen of a 15-seater bus owned by Togoba people living outside the city with a beer bottle.

He said the two stabbed men were now in stable condition and recovering at the Mt Hagen General Hospital.

Ambane said that two deaths were caused as a result of domestic argument, one through land dispute and another committed by youths under the influence of alcohol.

He said that so far the province was quiet during the New Year and Christmas periods.

He said that police carried out foot patrol in the city and the city was quiet.

Ambane said that police detained about 15 men for drinking in public and put them behind bars. They released the men later when they became sober.

He said that there was not much celebrations on the road and commended the people for their cooperation to make the New Year trouble-free.

He added that majority of the people celebrated the New Year peacefully in their homes or residential areas.

 

 

 

 

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