Many individuals have passed on in an ancestral debate in Papua New Guinea’s remote Highlands region, specialists confirm.
The casualties were shot dead during a trap in the Enga region throughout the end of the week, a public police representative told the BBC. The Highlands area has long battled with savagery, yet these killings are accepted to be the most obviously terrible in years.
A convergence of unlawful guns has made conflicts all the more lethal and fuelled a pattern of viciousness.
Authorities initially said at least 64 people have died. But later reports said they had miscounted and revised the toll down to 26. The BBC has asked the Papua New Guinea police for confirmation.
Police started collecting bodies at the scene near the town of Wabag – roughly 600km (373 miles) northwest of the capital Port Moresby.
Police received graphic videos and photos purporting to be from the scene, showing bodies loaded onto a truck, say media outlets.
Escalating tribal conflict – often over the distribution of land and wealth – led to a three-month lockdown in Enga last July, during which police imposed a curfew and travel restrictions. In August last year, the violence made international headlines after graphic footage involving three dead men circulated online.
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