<p>AUTHORITIES in Papua New Guinea have boosted security to prevent a further escalation of tribal violence, officials said today, after at least 24 people were killed in a troubled upland region earlier this month.</p> <p>The country’s highland clans have fought each other for centuries, but last week’s discovery of bodies, mostly belonging to women and children, marked a deadly departure from a cycle of killing in which the vulnerable are usually off limits.</p>
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