Couple attacked with arrows in Papua New Guinea

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A young couple who took a dip in a river in a remote part of Papua New Guinea are recovering from a harrowing attack by a tribesman, who shot the man with arrows twice before attempting to sexually assault the woman.

The couple have declined requests to speak to the media, but interviews by The Associated Press this week with the local doctor who first treated the pair, along with other accounts from Papua New Guinea, are shedding new light on the attack near Nomad in the isolated North Fly District.

According to Dr. Charlie Turharus, who treated the couple, the tribesman had been covertly tracking the pair for perhaps an hour or two before the …