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Falling tree kills sisters
By
PIUS MON
Two sisters were killed instantly while five other people were seriously injured after a tree fell on them at Kami village, South Waghi Mt. Hagen last week after continuous heavy rain.
According to eyewitness and former Highlands Zone and Mt Hagen Eagles winger Michael Kiap, the families were at their house when the disaster struck.
Mr Kiap said last Thursday between 2 and 3pm there was a heavy down pour, accompanied with strong winds that knocked trees onto the house, resulting in the two deaths and injuries.
He said the families were in the house in fear of the strong winds and down pour but did not realize that the tree would fall and hit them.
Mr Kiap in an interview with Sunday Chronicle this week said the two victims who were from Ialibu in the Southern Highlands Province aged five and two came to Kami with their mother to reside with their relatives and planned to return home last Saturday when the incident happened.
Others who have sustained severe injuries around their bodies, according to Mr. Kiap, were being cared fro at the nearby Kudjip Nazarene Hospital.
Among them was a 68 years old grandmother, the elder brother of the two victims and a middle aged woman while two one year old infants were saved from the incident.
"When the tree fell on the house my grandma called for help but nobody was around to rescue them, because they were on the other side of the Kami River,"
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