An ethnic clash in the Papua New Guinea capital, Port Moresby, has claimed at least seven lives and left many more injured, some of them seriously.
Police say a total of eighty arrests were made.
Police Superintendent, Emmanuel Hela, says the fighting started after the mutilated body of a Tari man was found in a drain near the Tete settlement of Gerehu.
Mr Hela says relatives of the victim have blamed the murder on settlers from Goilala in Central Province.
Local newspapers say a group of armed men from Tari the attacked the Goilala settlers, killing at least seven of them.
Police say their intervention prevented what could have become a massacre.
