Detained for exhuming corpse

By GYNNIE KERO
POLICE have detained a man from the North Ambenob local level government in Madang at the Jomba station for allegedly removing a body after it had been buried for three months.
Police commander Supt Mazuc Rubiang said the accused did an unlawful exhume last month.
He was married with two wives and 12 children and lived at Bai village in South Ambenob.
Supt Rubiang said the suspect was accused of eight sorcery-related killings in the South Ambenob area over the past four years.
Supt Rubiang said during an interrogation, the accused admitted he exhumed the body as his customary obligation. Supt Rubiang said the accused dug up the decomposed body after three months, washed it and transferred it to another grave he had prepared.
Meanwhile, in Madang town on Sunday, police reported the murder of a female from East Sepik who resides at the Biliau Maus Rot.
According to police brief, a fight erupted between two families who had consumed illicit spirit (yawa) at their home over the weekend.
Supt Rubiang said this led to the destroying of properties and two houses were torched.
He said during the confrontations, the deceased, Aplonia Wunjat, from Urimo village, Yangoru-Saussia, was attacked with an iron rod.
She was admitted at the Modilon General Hospital and later died.
He said Wunjat’s husband was also attacked with the same iron rod but he survived and was nursing head injuries at the hospital.
Supt Rubiang said the suspect, 26, was believed to be Wunjat’s son-in-law.
He is detained at the Jomba police station awaiting formal investigation.