A 29-year-old man from East Sepik province is now in police custody in Port Moresby.

This stemmed from him allegedly killing his two toddlers, within their rented accommodation. The incident happened at Morata One at around 5pm yesterday.

The father repeatedly stabbed his toddler sons to death. Related incident: https://www.thenational.com.pg/father-two-killed/

He tried to commit suicide too but the members of the community stopped it.

Police reported that the members of the community alerted them about it.

They said in a media release Waigani Police, Mobile Squad Unit and Fox 201 responded to it.

Thus, they said they went to the scene and took custody of the assailant.

CID Homicide and Scene of Crime Detectives have also attended to the scene.

Saint John’s Ambulance also attended to the scene and transported the bodies of the two deceased to Port Moresby General Hospital.

Thus, this incident has left members of the community at Morata 1 shocked. Other incident: https://pngsun.com/2021/04/27/firewoman-assaulted/

NCD Metropolitan Superintendent, Gideon Ikumu will release details after a full report.