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Papua New Guinea

Four Shot Dead in Southern Highlands

11 July 2002

Post-Courier (Port Moresby)

Four people were shot and chopped up in broad daylight in Mendi town and Tari district in Southern Highlands Province yesterday morning. And according to dismissed Governor Anderson Agiru, thousands of ballot papers had been destroyed or kept in custody of rival candidates and their gun-wielding supporters throughout the trouble-torn province. "There was no proper and fair polling conducted in the province and therefore a supplementary or fresh election be conducted... (GunPolicy.org)

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