Human sacrifice cult battles with police
By Nick Squires in Sydney
10/05/2007

Police reinforcements have been rushed to a remote part of Papua New Guinea after officers clashed with a shadowy cult accused of beheading villagers and offering them as human sacrifices.

Several people were reportedly killed and many injured after gun battles broke out between police and members of the cult, based in the mountains of Morobe province on PNG’s north coast.

Religious cults flourish in many parts of the country, which is divided into more than 800 tribal groups and achieved independence from Australia in 1975. the rest

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