New Zealand:Papua New Guinea tribesman shoots Rapper MC Stormtroopa with arrows after trying to rape his girlfriend

The New Zealand man who was hit twice in the chest by arrows in the jungles of Papua New Guinea is back in a Cairns hospital.

Matthew Scheurich, 28, pulled the two arrows from his torso as he and his 29-year-old girlfriend fled for their lives last week.

The attack reportedly happened in a remote village in western Papua New Guinea after a tribesman took a liking to Mr Scheurich's French girlfriend and wanted to marry her.

When Mr Scheurich stepped in to protect her, the tribesman attacked him with arrows and bashed him in the head with a rock.

Mr Scheurich's girlfriend was sexually assaulted and was also bitten, cut, scratched and badly bruised. She set off the couple's emergency locator beacon to raise the alarm.

Mr Scheurich was a musician, performing as a rapper in New Zealand under the stage name 'MC Stormtroopa'.

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