{"id":65993,"date":"2024-08-03T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/03\/papua-new-guinea-violence-unrest-slingshot-dart-weapons"},"modified":"2024-08-03T05:00:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T20:00:41","slug":"slingshots-and-metal-darts-see-tribal-violence-horrors-worsen-in-papua-new-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65993","title":{"rendered":"Slingshots and metal darts see tribal violence \u2018horrors\u2019 worsen in Papua New Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wire catapults used in deadly attacks are \u2018proliferating\u2019 in parts of the Pacific country, authorities say<\/p>\n<p>The spread of slingshot-style weapons that shoot metal darts has worsened violence and led to a rise in traumatic injuries in Papua New Guinea\u2019s north-eastern East Sepik province, authorities and medical officials said in the wake of attacks in the area that left dozens dead.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, attacks by young men on three remote villages in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/24\/at-least-26-killed-in-papua-new-guinea-village-attacks-including-16-children\">East Sepik\u2019s Angoram district killed at least 26 people including women and children<\/a>, though estimates of the total number killed have varied.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/03\/papua-new-guinea-violence-unrest-slingshot-dart-weapons\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wire catapults used in deadly attacks are \u2018proliferating\u2019 in parts of the Pacific country, authorities sayThe spread of slingshot-style weapons that shoot metal darts has worsened violence and led to a rise in traumatic injuries in Papua New Guinea\u2019s n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,874,267],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65994,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65993\/revisions\/65994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}