New Year prison break death in PNG's Madang Province
The victim is one of ten suspects who made the escape but did not make it.
Police in the province have commenced a man-hunt for the nine.
Madang Provincial Police Commander Chief Superintendant Sylvester Kalaut said the incident to have happened on New Year’s eve at about 5am in the morning and during the heavy downpour the province had experienced.
He said the Jomba police wardens found the suffocated prisoner’s mangled corpse trapped and dangling in the prison’s half removed steel bars.
He said the suspect had tried to force his body through the tight gap in the bar only to get his head stuck between the bars.
His nine accomplices managed to squeeze through the gap that they created using a sharp implement that was smuggled in prior to the escape; a matter that is also being investigated.
Chief Supt Kalaut said the incident ought to serve as a lesson to other suspects, that risks of escaping are high and ones best bet is to do the right thing and to work with the rule of law instead of against it.
He said among those now on the run to also be a betel-nut trader from the Highlands region whom police along the North Coast had hauled in for being in procession of a high powered firearm, which police have reason to believe had been purchased in Bogia district.
Meanwhile, one woman’s New Year’s celebrations turned sour after she was caught by police along the North Coast while trying to smuggle in some fireworks which she had purchased from Batas.
The PPC said the woman to have spent K4, 400 to bring in the items, which are prohibited under the PNG Customs law but ended up spending more than she bargained.
Street value of the items are said to be between K40-K50 and it is estimated she would have made about K20,000 plus. However, she was instead slapped hefty fine and her wares have since been forfeited to the state.
PNG Today / Post Courier
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