Magnitude 6.5 earthquake hits Papua New Guinea

JAKARTA (Reuters) - 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)

(Reporting by Ananda Teresia; Editing by Martin Petty and Clarence Fernandez)

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