INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Shops and businesses were attacked and set on fire in the capital of Papua New Guinea on Wednesday and people had been killed, the governor
Commissioner of Police David Manning said in a statement.Police in the Pacific Island nation have struggled with a surge in violent crime
doubling its gross domestic product since he took office in 2019, with the help of five gas and mining projects.Media showed fires burning
in the city on Wednesday, with the PNG Post Courier newspaper reporting firefighters had been threatened as they tried to do their jobs.The
guard house at parliament had also been burnt, the Post Courier reported.
Defence forces were entering the city, Parkop said, and
morning after discovering a reduction in their pay packets.The government circulated messages on social media denying that a new tax had
been imposed on police, with Marape vowing to fix any administrative error that had caused the pay shortfall.Without police, the city had
