Wamena, Papua – Some 16 native Papuans suffered arrow wounds in a tribal clash appearing in Jayawijaya District’s area, Papua, on Thursday and Friday, but a public hospital’s regional physicians used timely life-saving treatment, a law enforcement officer specified.
The medical professionals drawn out the remnants of arrows that pierced into the victims’ bodies, though none were hospitalized in keeping with the requests of families, Jayawijaya Cops Chief Adjunct Sen. Coms. Dominggus Rumaropen stated in Wamena on Saturday.
The injured Papuans were taken house by their households to be treated at home, he remarked while steering clear of elaborating on the factors causative to the clashes between the people in the villages of Wukahilapok and Meagama.
In putting a stop to the clash and pressing them back, police workers deployed to the event website fired a caution shot while interesting them to stop attacking each other.
They also set up a Red-and-White flag on a boundary line of the location that each member of the warring camps was not enabled to go through. They were likewise convinced to start negotiating to end the conflict, he exposed.
Apart from the regional cops’s ventures to end the clash, one of the warring groups set ablaze several conventional Papuan huts (honai). They appeared to disregard the cops’s presence on the ground.
On the contrary, each sparring camp was on guard and geared up with standard weapons, consisting of arrows, spears, and machetes, he specified.
Violent conflicts in between people in the eastern Indonesian province of Papua have actually consistently happened.
Media reports attribute the disputes to causative factors, such as old competitions and revenge.
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