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 Papua New Guinea Kumuls have overcome a early scare from the Cook Islands by beating them 32 to 16 in round 2 of the Rugby League World cup match played  at Halliwell Jones Stadium in Warrington, UK. Only two points separated the  two rugby league nations at half-time, but the second stanza was all the Kumuls, running in four tries in 27 minutes to put themselves back on track for a quarter-final campaign. PNG kumuls five-eight Kyle Labutt Celebrates a try [Photo by PNG LNG Kumuls media] The Kumuls opened their account in the 14th minute when Rodrick Tai left the Kukis defenders in his wake and ran 80 metres to score a sensational PNG try. Come the 23rd minute and PNG had their second try when five-eighth Kyle Laybutt jinked and danced his way across the defensive line 10 metres out before crashing right of the uprights to score. PNG went down to 12 men with 12 minutes to go in the first half when prop Mackenzie Yei was sin binned for a dangerous tackle.  Wasting no time capitalising

The Papua New Guinea’s NCD/Central command is clamping down on all illegal activities affecting the role of police including identifying and charging impersonators who are falsely portraying themselves as police to deceive and extort money from unsuspecting victims. Divisional Commander of NCD Central Command, Assistant Commissioner  Anthony Wagambie Junior said three civilians  were arrested lately, but one of them escaped and is on the run. He said two of them were slapped with various charges, including impersonating the role of police.  Assistant Commissioner  Anthony Wagambie Junior He said the first one was arrested at Porebada outside NCD. He was found drunk and  half-clothed in police uniform. He was arrested after a motorist along the Porebada road became suspicious and raised the alarm with Police. The informant reported that four men in a brown ten seater half-clothed in  Police uniform, were stopping and extorting money from unsuspecting motorists. NCD units went to the loc