{"id":67402,"date":"2024-10-23T14:00:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/23\/png-bus-shooting-death-toll-enga-province-lagaip"},"modified":"2024-10-23T14:00:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T05:00:52","slug":"gunmen-kill-seven-with-more-than-a-dozen-missing-after-papua-new-guinea-bus-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67402","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen kill seven with more than a dozen missing after Papua New Guinea bus shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say it is unclear if 17 missing passengers are still alive or wounded, and may be hiding in bushes or sheltering with neighbouring clans<\/p>\n<p>At least seven people were killed and more than a dozen remain missing after gunmen ambushed a public bus and shot passengers in Papua New Guinea\u2019s Enga province.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting took place in Enga\u2019s Lagaip district on Tuesday afternoon. More than 20 passengers were on the bus when men armed with high-powered weapons \u201cset up an ambush and fired shots indiscriminately\u201d into the vehicle, highland western end assistant police commissioner Joseph Tondop said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/23\/png-bus-shooting-death-toll-enga-province-lagaip\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police say it is unclear if 17 missing passengers are still alive or wounded, and may be hiding in bushes or sheltering with neighbouring clansAt least seven people were killed and more than a dozen remain missing after gunmen ambushed a public bus and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1887,"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-67402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67402","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\/1887"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67403,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67402\/revisions\/67403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}