{"id":33708,"date":"2013-09-12T10:16:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T06:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=33708"},"modified":"2013-09-12T10:16:12","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T06:16:12","slug":"terrified-tourists-attacked-with-spears-and-machetes-and-two-guides-hacked-to-death-in-horror-attack-in-papua-new-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=33708","title":{"rendered":"Terrified tourists attacked with spears and machetes and two guides hacked to death in horror attack in Papua New Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"group<\/a>A group of western tourists trekking through a remote jungle track in Papua New Guinea have been injured in a savage attack in which their guides were hacked to death.<\/p>\n

The attack happened on the popular Black Cat trail, near the town of Wau in Marobe province, when the tour group was ambushed by bandits wielding machetes, knives and spears.<\/p>\n

The Western tourists, believed to include eight Australians and a New Zealander, are understood to have sustained injuries that include cuts and minor head injuries.<\/p>\n

The gang of six men that attacked the tourists on the Black Cat track has disappeared into the jungle and police are hunting them.<\/p>\n

Trek leader Christie King, the only woman among the travellers, led some of the tourists through the bush to find assistance after the attack.<\/p>\n

They are now said to be making their way back to the capital Port Moresby.<\/p>\n

Stanley Komunt of the Morobe Mining Joint Venture project who co-ordinated the group’s rescue said that they initially thought that only one guide had been killed but found two bodies when they arrived at the scene of the attack.<\/p>\n

It has not been established whether the attack was just to steal the tourists’ possessions – everything they had was taken by the bandits – or whether it was because a gang of locals objected to porters from another district bringing visitors to their area and benefiting from the tourist’s fees.<\/p>\n

Shocked local villagers have banded together to hunt for the attackers.<\/p>\n

All of the surviving porters have knife wounds, some of them serious.<\/p>\n

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