Police Chief Sergeant, logging worker kidnapped

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Acting North Fly commander Sr Insp Ewai Segi … hostages held in secret hideout

Police Chief Sergeant, logging worker kidnapped

PORT MORESBY: A Chief Sergeant and a local worker with a logging company were kidnapped by armed men after a deadly gun battle near the Kamusi logging camp on Monday.

About 20 armed men launched the attack at about 1.30am and police believed two kidnappers were critically injured and four others wounded before fleeing with their two hostages.

The kidnappers have demanded for a substantial amount of ransom for the safe release of the hostages.

The full story of the news break was published by The National:

 

Armed men abduct policeman

June 10, 2021The NationalMain Stories

By CLIFFORD FAIPARIK
TWO kidnappers are believed to have been killed and another four wounded in a deadly gun fight that saw a Port Moresby-based chief sergeant and a logging company worker abducted near the Kamusi logging camp, Western, on Monday. The kidnappers have demanded a substantial amount of ransom for the safe release of their hostages.
Acting South Fly commander Sr Insp Ewai Segi said the chief sergeant was abducted by the armed kidnappers in a predawn raid at 1.30am on Monday. “The chief sergeant, from the Southern police command based in Konedobu and a local staff of the logging company were captured during the gun fight near the logging camp,” he said. “During the gun battle, two of the criminals were killed and another four wounded. The hostages are now being held in a secret hideout near Lake Campbell and Wawoi Falls at the Western-Hela and Southern Highlands border. “A 10-men team from the Port Moresby-based mobile squad is now on the ground with acting Southern Region commander Chief Supt Rigga Neggi searching for the hostages,” Sr Insp Segi said. He said yesterday that about 20 armed men from Nipa in Southern Highlands and Komo in Hela, who are involved in arms and drug smuggling, launched the strike. “The armed men infiltrated the camp and captured the policeman and the staff during a struggle that alerted camp residents,” Snr Isp Segi said. Policemen responded and exchanged gunfire with the armed raiders in an attempt to rescue the chief sergeant and the local staff. “The armed raiders managed to escape with their injured accomplices,” Snr Insp Segi said. “We believe two of them may have died because their injuries were severe.” He said he was concerned over the continuous risk of hostage-taking at the Kamusi logging camp. “These are usual threats made by local thugs whenever the management of the logging companies bring in the police to arrest them for instigating violence against the logging operations,” he said.
“We are not taking the threats lightly.  “In last May, Mt Hagen-based mobile squad conducted an operation and arrested suspects responsible for taking a 16 local and expatriate staff from logging camps as hostages. “They were released after the company management paid some ransom.  “To date, 20 kidnappers have been arrested and charged in courts.
“A kidnapper was killed by his own villagers during a police operation along the Western-Southern Highlands-Hela borders in the manhunt for kidnappers.”

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