A local official says the three hostages were released after a ransom payment, but authorities have yet to catch the captors.
SYDNEY, Australia – An Australian archaeologist and two Papua New Guinea researchers held for a week by 20 armed men in a remote part of the Pacific Island nation were released on Sunday, February 26, while their captors remain at large, a local official told Reuters.
“They didn’t catch the criminals,” Seiyaka said. As soon as soldiers exchanged money for the Australian and the two Papua New Guinea women, he said, the captors “ran away into the bush.” Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong thanked the Papua New Guinea government for “securing a safe and peaceful resolution.”
“The police and the army have surrounded the area and will be operating there until you surrender,” he warned the armed men in a statement.provided the bridge for the first human migration to Australia tens of thousands of years ago. The remote village of Fogomaiyu, in the Mount Bosavi region in Hela province, is part of the collapsed cone of an extinct volcano.
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