A group of hostages being held for ransom by armed criminals in a remote region of Papua New Guinea have all now been freed
, the country’s Prime Minister James Marape said Sunday. “We apologize to the families of those taken as hostages for ransom, it took us a while but the last three have been successfully returned through covert operations with no paid,” Marape wrote in a Facebook post.
PNG Police Commissioner David Manning had previously said the hostage-takers had spotted the group “by chance” and taken them into the bush. “These are opportunists that have obviously not thought this situation through before they acted, and have been asking for cash to be paid,” Manning said. Papua New Guinea, a Pacific nation of more than 9 million people, shares an island with the restive Indonesian region of Papua.
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