Tension mounts for ethic clash in Bulolo 

By SAMPSON BONAI
POLICE are keeping watch over Zenag chicken farm following an ethnic clash between two villages at Mumeng, Morobe province, following an alleged rape last week.
A woman said the two villages clashed over a long standing differences and it escalated to a physical confrontation between them following an alleged rape of a minor last week.
People including men, women and children from Parakris village took up arms and climbed up the mountain behind their village to keep watch over their enemies below the valley and to sound warning to the rest of the villagers it they see them advancing.
Parakris village also burned down the market at the Zenag station to prevent Patep village from using the market to sell their garden produce to the Zenag farm workers prompting Mobile Squad police personnel to be deployed to the area to keep watch over the company properties yesterday.
The situation was quiet but tense as vehicles travelling to Lae were stopped and passengers checked at a police road block at Zenag farm.
Another road block was set up further at Patep Bridge by the youths to check on their enemies.
Acting Morobe provincial police commander Insp Kelly Yawip said he had not received any reports on the incident and was waiting for Mumeng and Bulolo police to brief him today.