Tragedy
‘Another landslide can happen’: PNG scrambles to stop further tragedy
Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at the remote scene of Papua New Guinea’s mass-casualty disaster.
- by David Rising
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How WA’s new gun laws might have applied to the Floreat murderer
Mark Bombara was a law-abiding gun owner – right up until he wasn’t. New laws under debate cannot bring back lost loved ones, but may alter the ownership landscape.
- by Hamish Hastie
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Landslide
Australia to send aid to PNG after up to 2000 people buried alive in landslide
The death toll in Papua New Guinea is expected to rise following a catastrophic landslide that destroyed a village in remote Enga province.
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Road safety
Dashcam footage shows horror ride-share crash that left man, child dead
A father and his two young children were travelling in a ride-share car that turned into an oncoming Toyota Hilux, police say.
- by Jessica McSweeney and Angus Dalton
Several children killed after Indian amusement park inferno, police say
A major fire broke out on Saturday at an amusement park in Gujarat state in western India, killing at least 27 people, police and media reports said.
Every night, Jeremy Buckingham went to bed hoping his son was OK
The upper house member is hesitant to say he returned to politics in his son’s memory, but says the state’s inadequate mental health system was behind the decision.
- by Mary Ward
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Perth
Floreat mother and daughter murdered over friend’s marriage breakdown
Jennifer Petelczyc, 59, and her youngest daughter Gretl, 18, were senselessly murdered on Friday after becoming the unexpected victims in the marriage breakdown of a family friend which ended in a gunman storming their house.Â
- by Holly Thompson, Heather McNeill, Michael Stamp and Amber Wilkinson
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Perth
Man who killed mother, daughter in Floreat home was looking for his ex-wife
The man attended the Floreat house looking for his ex-wife, but when he realised she wasn’t there, he instead killed Jenny Petelczyc and her teenage daughter before turning the gun on himself.
- by Holly Thompson
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Papua New Guinea
‘The land continues sliding’ in PNG as up to 300 reported dead
The PNG Post Courier reported the increased death toll and said 1182 houses were destroyed, citing an MP. At least six villages were affected, Australian officials said.
- by Sam McKeith and Rod McGuirk
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Police
Perth cyclist dies after being ‘run down by suspected vigilante’
A 48-year-old Perth cyclist has died after allegedly being run down by a driver in a suspected act of vigilantism.Â
- by Holly Thompson
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Papua New Guinea
Hundreds believed killed by landslide in Enga Province, PNG
More than 50 homes, many with people still asleep inside, were buried when the landslide hit Kaokalam village around 3am.
- by Lewis Jackson and Renju Jose