Many walked out of the compound with cattle prods.
They said PNG police and locals had entered the compound with weapons and attacked detainees.
"No one knows," said Edison Byamukama, 34, who watches the compound with an automatic rifle.
The convoy left the compound with headlights switched off and set out for peshmerga forward positions.
Army gunships then arrived on the scene and swept the compound with heavy fire.
She insists that two men came into the compound with diamonds.
Later that day, Altman set off across the compound with Zizi and the dwarf.
He was in the compound with another Briton, Paul Wolstenholme, 30 Palestinian staff, and two young children.
Lader's group has manufactured a small amount of the compound, with the help of Columbia University chemistry professor David Horne.
Fall shares the compound with his wife, his two children, his younger sister and his widowed mother.
The couple now share the compound with nine children and grandchildren, six goats, eight dogs and a dozen cats.
