The biggest massacre: 53 people died in clashes between tribes in Papua 02:34

Papua New Guinea police said that at least 53 people were killed in the massacre in the country’s mountainous regions. writes about this A B C.

Police believe the men in question were killed in an ambush in Enga province, a result of escalating tribal conflict in the region. The incident was described as the largest massacre in recent history in the mountainous parts of the country.

“This is by far the biggest murder I have seen in Enga and perhaps in the entire Highlands region of Papua New Guinea,” added Royal Papua New Guinea Police Acting Superintendent George Kakas.

Enga province was blockaded by police for months last year after tribal violence escalated.

Law enforcement forces are trying to stop the flow of firearms and ammunition to the region, further increasing the violence.

This tribal conflict involves the same tribes that killed more than 60 people last year.

Deputy Inspector Kakas reported that one of the tribes set out to attack a neighboring tribe with its allies and mercenaries, but was ambushed.

Police and defense forces had to make every effort to quell the situation, risking their lives.

“We collected bodies scattered all over the battlefield, on the roads, along the river banks… and they were loaded into police trucks and taken to the hospital,” the official said. He added that the count of “those who were shot, injured and fled into the bush” was still ongoing. “We expect the number of victims to rise to 60 or 65,” Kakas said.

Tribal violence is common in the Enga region. Now the trigger was that a tribe from another village was blamed for the death of a man and then ambushed his funeral, killing five people with knives and axes.

In the months that followed, tit-for-tat retaliation spiraled out of control. As more tribes became involved, many villages were raided and burned. As a result, 17 tribes participated in the conflict.

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