Hunt for cop killers intensified
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Hunt for cop killers intensified
PORT MORESBY: Police have stepped up their manhunt for cop killers
who are on the run after killing a policeman and injuring another in West Sepik’s
Telefomin.
Border commander ACP Peter Philip said a police team
had been sent in to investigate the murder and that more men would be deployed
to hunt down the cop killers.
He reiterated his call to the people to hand over the
men responsible for the slaying of the policeman and return the police-issued
guns taken in the attack.
For context, read this earlier
report: https://pngcybermonitor.blogspot.com/2022/01/hunt-for-cop-killers-in-east-sepik.html
(Hunt for cop
killers in East Sepik)
The news break was reported by The National:
Police
hunting for cop killers in West Sepik
January 18, 2022The
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POLICE are hunting for the men who
attacked and killed a policeman and wounding another in Telefomin, West Sepik,
on Saturday.
Assistant Commissioner of Police border command Peter Philip said a police team
had been sent to the Edwaki camp to investigate the matter. Philip urged the
people to hand over the men and return the police-issued guns they took during
the attack.
Police reported that two policemen were attacked by a group of men at a market
in East Sepik’s Ambunti-Dreikikier district.
Philip had earlier said that both men were members of the Mobile Squad from
Port Moresby based in Turubu, Angoram, East Sepik.
However, Ambunti-Dreikikier MP Johnson Wapunai yesterday clarified that the
attack did not occur in the district but in nearby Telefomin. He said the
logging operation was in Edwaki in the Namea local level government of
Telefomin.
Wapunai said Elimuli was an access point where logs were transported along the
Sepik River via a pontoon.
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