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LAE city’s main rubbish dump was
forcibly closed while traffic ground to a halt when a roadblock was set
up by angry members of the community following the death of a man
yesterday morning.
Lae police said the people who live around the dump prevented the Lae
city authority workers from dumping the rubbish and the roadblock scared
motorists off the Bumayong-Lae road.
The roadblock was cleared later in the day by police who continued to
maintain surveillance while city authority workmen and company vehicles
worked on the dumpsite.
Police said no one was attacked or property damaged by the mob who urged
the city government to relocate the dump to another are where it would
not be a health hazard for them.
The angry reaction by the community followed the death of 34-year-old
Limbo Loagis who was killed instantly when a PMV bus ran over him on the
road along the main city dump.
Police said the deceased was hit and dragged for a few metres by the PMV
bus at about 6am as the bus driver did not see the man in the middle of
the road.
“The bus hit the victim as he was coming away from the fire. The fire
was going beside the road and the man went there to light his
cigarette,” senior constable David Opald said.
Mr Opald and his men said the black smoke and the smell from the rubbish
were hazardous as well as the rubbish that was dumped along the road to
Bumayong and the Telikom Training College.
 
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