Magnitude 6.5 earthquake hits Papua New Guinea
An earthquake of magnitude 6.5 struck Papua New Guinea on Friday, Indonesia's geophysics agency said, but ruled out a potential tsunami.
The quake's epicentre was at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), it added. (This story has been corrected to fix the location to Papua New Guinea, not Indonesia's Papua, in the headline and paragraph 1)
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