Tari township Photo: RNZ Pacific / Koroi Hawkins The focal point of fighting is Tari-Pori, the district whose MP is PNG's prime minister James Marape. The newspaper The National reports that a land dispute last week in the Tagali area lapsed into a violent confrontation. After it resulted in a man being shot dead, fighting escalated between different branches of one tribe, killing ten people in the space of two days. EMTV reports that over a thousand people have left their villages to seek shelter in schools or other public facilities in fear of more violence. Close contacts of Solomons' Covid-19 community case test negative