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Villagers in Papua New Guinea have attacked a man and hanged him after he killed a teacher.

The teacher, 20-year-old Peter Itaki, left a store and was chewing betel nut last Sunday when the man attacked him, hitting him several times in the head with an axe, said The National newspaper in the capital, Port Moresby.

Angry tribesmen from the killer's village then attacked him, inflicting wounds to his limbs, and then hanged him by the roadside, said the newspaper.

Deputy governor of Enga Province, Miki Kaeok, confirmed the killing in Minamb Valley, said The National, which ran a photograph of the dead killer tied to a bamboo screen, with eight people posing for the picture, some pointing at the body.

Itaki's relatives and village leaders condemned the brutal killing and called for calm, urging relatives not to take the law into their own hands.

Payback is a traditional custom in Papua New Guinea, a nation where tribal wars and black magic are common, and most people live subsistence lives in jungle-clad mountain villages

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[JohnCenaFan28]

Wow, they should have just let him rot in jail.