Police hunting for cop killers in West Sepik

POLICE are hunting for the men who attacked and killed a policeman and wounding another in Telefomin, West Sepik, on Saturday.
Assistant Commissioner of Police border command Peter Philip said a police team had been sent to the Edwaki camp to investigate the matter. Philip urged the people to hand over the men and return the police-issued guns they took during the attack.
Police reported that two policemen were attacked by a group of men at a market in East Sepik’s Ambunti-Dreikikier district.
Philip had earlier said that both men were members of the Mobile Squad from Port Moresby based in Turubu, Angoram, East Sepik.
However, Ambunti-Dreikikier MP Johnson Wapunai yesterday clarified that the attack did not occur in the district but in nearby Telefomin. He said the logging operation was in Edwaki in the Namea local level government of Telefomin.
Wapunai said Elimuli was an access point where logs were transported along the Sepik River via a pontoon.