Tag: Captive
Plea to PNG prime minister to tell truth about ransom paid...
PNG Post-Courier
A recent cash payment by Papua New Guinea for the release of three hostages held captive by armed gunmen in Southern Highlands province...
Marape clarifies kidnappers were paid K100,000 for freeing PNG hostages
NBC News
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape has revealed that about K100,000 (about NZ$46,000) was paid to the kidnappers for the release of...
PNG’s Marape on the Mt Bosavi hostages: ‘Free them all’
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby
Prime Minister James Marape has urged armed captors to free the remaining four hostages which includes an Australian-based New...
Priority with ‘greedy’ kidnappers is to return captives to families, says...
PNG Post-Courier
As day five dawned in Papua New Guinea's kidnapping drama, the family of one of the four hostages captives -- one of three...
PNG gunmen free one of 3 women held captive, reports Post-Courier
PNG Post-Courier
The Post-Courier has exclusively been advised of the release of one of the women held captive by armed men in the Bosavi mountains,...
Failure to free PNG hostages could cost captors ‘their lives’, ...
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinean security forces have been authorised to use the full force of the law to secure the four captives being held...
Wenda calls on West Papuan rebels to release kidnapped NZ pilot
RNZ Pacific
A West Papuan independence movement leader, Benny Wenda, says the release of New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens held hostage by armed rebels is...
Frustrated PNG tribesmen capture 2 policemen – seize vehicles, weapons
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Two Papua New Guinean police vehicles travelling from Hagen to Hela in the Highlands after servicing were fired on today in...
