Jiwaka

Victims affected by the flooded river contributed  more than K10,000 to pay for the land for the new course of the river, while Anglimp South Wahgi MP Komun Joe Koim provided an excavator last week.

The flooding river took a new course and covered large blocks of coffee plantations, food gardens, homes and arable land in the Kindeng and cut off the Kindeng-Kondopina Highway for the last three years.

Koim hit out at the National Road Authority for failing to fix the section of highway which was washed away by the flooding river in 2013.

Jiwaka police commander Joseph Tondop reported that fighting between the Kisu and Neneka tribes intensified following the killing of Maime Kapa, aged 25, late Saturday night.

Tondop says that six suspects have been identified as police look into the murder of the man.

The incident occurred  as a result of an ongoing land dispute between the two neighboring Kisu and Neneka tribes at the headwaters of the Wara Kane Kudjip Minj in Jiwaka.