Tribes in P.N.G. clash
I >N.Z. Press Assn—Copyright I PORT MORESBY, October 11. Riot police today swooped down on watering clansmen in the mountainous Chimhu province of central Papua New Guinea and made 160 arrests to try 4o break up a tribal conjflict which has already :>resulted in one death. ; A police spokesman said today that 10 other clansmen .were in hospital with spear [and arrow wounds received (during the fighting between itwo rival tribes in the Sina |sina district, about 20 kilometres south of the town of ’Kundiawa. The man who died was adjmitted to Kundiawa Hospital with four arrows in his back. The fighting has been going jOn since the week-end and iwas started when a 32-yeai-|old man from the Kali clan [was killed in a motor accident while a passenger in a car driven by a man from the Masul clan. The accident happened on Friday and the next day hundreds of Kali tribesmen staged a “pay-back raid" against a Masul village and burnt 14 houses to the ground.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33974, 15 October 1975, Page 19
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