Locals recover woman’s body

By LEONNIE WAYANG-SEVUA
THE mutilated body of a woman was found in a Kamkumu vegetable garden near Lae yesterday when locals went to check on their crops early in the morning.
Seeking help, the locals stopped a G4S security company personnel in a car and guided them to the scene.
People were kept away from the site.
The women’s body was in a garden off the main road that runs up to Speed Way and Taraka.
According to one of the G4S security guards, they had to drive through gardens and kunai grass to get to the site where the body was found after the gravel road they were travelling on ended a few kilometres into the local area.
 He said that the woman’s body had stab wounds under her arms and chest and one of her arms severed. It was possible she had also been raped.
“We had to cover up her naked body with leaves and grass as it wasn’t good to see her lying on the ground like that,” the guard said.
The woman’s husband, believed to be from Sinasina, Chimbu province, told police he was walking home with her along the road in 15th block in Kamkumu at about four or five o’clock in the morning when they were held up by men armed with bush knives and possibly a gun.
No details were available as to how he escaped but it is understood that he walked all the way from Kamkumu to Lae police station to report the matter.
Police are investigating the matter.