From Maprik, East Sepik Province but raised in Rigo district of Central Province is one of the upcoming PNG music artists who ...

The shocking video depicts a gang using bush knives to decapitate the body of a villager killed in a massacre in Papua New Guinea's far north-west East Sepik province two weeks ago.

They were killed by a group of 30 young men," the acting police commander in East Sepik province, James Baugen, told Australian Broadcasting Corp. on Friday.

He added that there were just 20 police officers for every 100,000 residents in the Angoram region of East Sepik province, where the massacre took place.

The incident comes after a deadly magnitude 6.9 quake in March of the previous year, which resulted in three fatalities and the destruction of around 1,000 homes in East Sepik province.

More than 200 people fled their homes after they were torched in the attacks in the island nation's remote East Sepik province earlier this month.. Acting provincial police commander James Baugen ...