Wamena, Papua, Sept. 12 -- Some 16 native Papuans suffered arrow wounds in a tribal clash erupting in Jayawijaya District's area, Papua, on Thursday and Friday, but a public hospital's local doctors offered timely life-saving treatment, a police officer stated.

The doctors extracted the remnants of arrows that pierced into the victims' bodies, though none were hospitalized in keeping with the requests of families, Jayawijaya Police Chief Adjunct Sen. Coms. Dominggus Rumaropen stated in Wamena on Saturday.

Hence, the injured Papuans were taken home by their families to be treated at home, he remarked while steering clear of elaborating on the factors causative to the clashes between the tribes in the villages of Wukahilapok and Meagama....