Associated Press \u00a026\/07\/2024 MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) \u2014 At least 26 people were reportedly killed by a gang in three remote villages in Papua New Guinea\u2019s north, United Nations and police officials say. \u201cIt was a very terrible thing \u2026 when I approached the area, I saw that there were children, men, women. They were killed by a group of 30 young men,” acting Provincial Police Commander in the South Pacific island nation\u2019s East Sepik province James Baugen told Australian Broadcasting Corp. on Friday. Baugen told the ABC that all the houses in the villages had been burned and the remaining villagers were sheltering at a police station, too scared to name the perpetrators. \u201cSome of the bodies left in the night were taken by crocodiles into the swamp. We only… <\/p>\n
Associated Press \u00a026\/07\/2024 MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) \u2014 At least 26 people were reportedly killed by a gang in three remote villages in Papua New Guinea\u2019s north, United Nations and police officials say. \u201cIt was a very terrible thing \u2026 when I approached the area, I saw that there were children, men, women. They were killed by a group of 30 young men,” acting Provincial Police Commander in the South Pacific island nation\u2019s East Sepik province James Baugen told Australian Broadcasting Corp. on Friday. Baugen told the ABC that all the houses in the villages had been burned and the remaining villagers were sheltering at a police station, too scared to name the perpetrators. \u201cSome of the bodies left in the night were taken by crocodiles into the swamp. We only... <\/p>\n