A youth was killed on boxing day at six mile in Port Moresby after he was thrown off a vehicle transporting building materials.
Six mile police confirmed the young man was the only casualty while the driver of the vehicle has been detained and charged.
According to eyewitnesses, a truck carrying building materials particularly of steel rods was turning the 6-mile round-about when the steel robs started falling. The youth who was sitting on top of the steel robs at the back of the truck tried to stop the steel rods from falling but he was thrown out first and the steel rods fell on top of him and smashed him to death.
Police and health personnel took the body to the hospital morgue.