A professor from Australia and his fellow researchers have been freed from captivity more than a week after they were abducted in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.
A second woman who had been abducted and taken hostage was released two days ago.
James Marape, the prime minister of Papua New Guinea, praised the people, local authorities, the police, and the military in a Facebook post after the hostages were released.
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An Australian archaeologist and two Papua New Guinea researchers held for a week by 20 armed men in a remote part of the Pacific Island nation were released on Sunday, while their captors remain at