Anger and protest: Relatives block Highlands Highway over police officer's death

Anger and protest: Relatives block Highlands Highway over police officer's death

Relatives of a policeman killed in Mendi several weeks ago have blocked the Highlands Highway outside Goroka, preventing the free flow of traffic. Police are being deployed to the site.

Relatives of slain PNG police officer block Highlands Highway over unresolved killing

By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent The family of a Papua New Guinea police constable, killed in an ambush last month, has blocked a section of the Highlands Highway in Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province, demanding justice for his death. Constable Harry Gorano succumbed to his injuries in intensive care two weeks ago after spending three weeks in a coma. He was attacked alongside colleagues in the Southern Highlands in January, during …