But deep within the British Commonwealth country’s rugged mountains and tropical rain forests, some dark practices still occur.
On Wednesday (Oct. 9), the father of a three-year-old girl allegedly took his daughter into a wooded area and bit into her neck, eating the flesh and sucking her blood, the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier reports.
Two boys witnessed the event and reported it to local officials, who quickly arrested the man.
“He was just laughing at the boys and continued eating the flesh and sucking the blood,” local councilor John Kenny told the Post-Courier.
As gruesome as the incident was, it’s not an isolated event, according to numerous reports from Papua New Guinea .
The relatively unexplored country is home to millions of people who live in isolated rural villages and maintain traditional practices that, by many reports, sometimes include cannibalism.
- In2EastAfrica
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