Police searching for 4 Bangladeshis

By CLIFFORD FAIPARIK
POLICE are looking for four Bangladeshis hiding in the Kikori district of Gulf, who had illegally entered the country while on their way to Australia.
Gulf police commander Chief Insp Maria Johns said the four allegedly entered Western from Merauke in the Papua province of Indonesia last week, with the help of locals.
“Police are now searching for them in the remote Kikori area after tip off,” she said.
The four managed to evade police and law enforcement authorities in Western and reached Kikori.
“They are hiding there and preparing to sneak across the PNG-Australian maritime border into Torres Strait Islands in Far North Queensland,” she said.
“From there, they will go into the Australian mainland with the help of human smugglers in Australia.”
Johns said the locals were part of an international human smuggling network operating in Australia, PNG and Indonesia.
Johns has already given the Australian High Commission in Port Moresby a heads-up.
In a separate incident, police arrested a Chinese for illegally working in PNG after a raid on a shop at Malalaua district, Gulf.
“Police had executed a warrant to search for firearms in the store after being tipped off that firearms were in that shop,” Johns said.
Police did not find any guns but found bags of fish bladders and a man from China who did not have a passport and visa.
The Chinese was taken to Port Moresby and handed over to Immigration officers.