By Tim Swanston, ABC
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Papua New Guinea police have revised the death toll in a massacre in the country’s highlands to 26, after revealing they had received the “wrong head count”.
Warning: Some of the details in this story are distressing.
Police believe the men were shot dead in an ambush in Enga Province, in a major escalation of tribal fighting in the region.
Local police believe it could be the largest massacre in PNG’s highlands in recent history.
Police had provided a higher death toll earlier this morning in the 50s, but Royal…
