Sepik

[sey-pik]

noun

1. a river in N Papua New Guinea, flowing E to the Bismarck Sea. 700 miles (1,126 km) long.

Example Sentences

At least 26 people were killed, including 16 children, when three villages in East Sepik province were attacked earlier this year.

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Governor Allan Bird told Australia's ABC News there were just 20 police officers for the 100,000 people who live in the Angoram district of East Sepik province where the attack took place.

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The quake rocked the East Sepik region at about 6.20 a.m.

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East Sepik province Governor Allan Bird posted on Facebook Sunday that initial estimates show the earthquake had destroyed about 1,000 homes in the area which was already “dealing with widespread flooding” from earlier in March.

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“The flooding actually covers an area more than 800 kilometers long, and so there’s about maybe 60 or 70 villages involved all along the Sepik River,” Bird told the ABC on Monday.

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