9 die as van goes over cliff

Nine people, including a pregnant woman and two children, were killed on Papua New Guinea's Highlands Highway when a 10-seater 4WD plunged 10m off a cliff into a river.

Vegetable seller John Paragua, his pregnant wife and daughter, four of his male employees, a woman and a 12-year-old boy died at Togoba.

Police said it seemed the driver tried to avoid a landslip.