Dozens killed in outbreak of tribal violence in Papua New Guinea highlands

Papua New Guinea’s Enga province. Dozens have been killed in an outbreak of tribal violence in the Pacific nation. Photograph: Helen Davidson/The Guardian

Dozens of men have been killed in a fresh outbreak of tribal violence in the remote highlands of Papua New Guinea, local police have said.

George Kakas, Enga provincial police commander, told the Guardian the men were killed by heavy gun fire on Sunday. He said men from two tribes staged an attack on another group who were “ambushed and killed.”