Papua New Guinea police search Enga Province !

Story Radio Australia .

Papua New Guinea police are scouring jungle looking for a man believed to be responsible for killing four people and seriously injuring a mother and her seven-year-old child.

Provincial police commander George Kakas was quoted by local media as saying "the people who committed these acts must be hunted down like the animals they are and made to pay the price as they have no place in society".

It is understood a dispute over payments given to rival tribes in PNG's Enga province sparked the violence.
Deputy Commander Epenes Nili told Radio Australia's Pacific Beat program that two tribes were paid 100,000 kina ($50,000) each to stop fighting near a local hospital.
While one tribe said they distributed the funds fairly, members of the other tribe believed it had not been.

"One of them got angry, and was not really satisfied with what was paid to him, he got a weapon and went to the house of the person distributing the money," Deputy Commander Nili said.
"When he came out of the house he shot him, at point blank, and he died instantly."
Police said the suspect and at least six others from his tribe then fled into the night, killing three more people and kidnapping a young child, and are now are hiding in the jungle.
Deputy Commander Nili said the child had now been rescued and he was hopeful the tribes in the region would help police in capturing the man.
"There is the possibility there will be the exchanging of gunfire, but we are fairly sure with the assistance of the community we will find out where the criminals are," he said.
"Hopefully police will, within a few days, hunt them down."