Old fashioned superstition and persecution in Papua New Guinea
Port Moresby newspaper article -- 1990
CHRISTIAN VILLAGER CHOPS MAN TO DEATH, HACKS WOMAN
A man chopped a fellow villager to death with an axe and may have fatally wounded a woman in Madang Province on Monday.
Provincial police commander Pius Sipelung said yesterday that the attacker, a Kanang villager, apparently suspected the two of practising sorcery and of having been responsible for past deaths in the village.
He chopped the man several times on the head, neck, jaw and back, killing him instantly, then turned on the woman and hacked her in the stomach and head. Witnesses said she fled into the bush, bleeding heavily. She has not been seen since and was presumed to have died in the bush as a result of her wounds.
Mr Sipelung said a man had been arrested and charged with willful murder. The situation in the village was tense and police were keeping a close watch.
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