Papua New Guinea Landslide: 'Over 2,000 People' Buried Alive

More than 2,000 people were trapped inside their homes when a huge landslide hit a remote village in Papua New Guinea, the Pacific nation's authorities told the UN in a letter seen by AFP. “The landslide buried more than 2,000 people alive and caused major damage,” the national emergency response center said in a letter to the UN delegation in the capital Port Moresby. Rescue crews are in a “race against time” to find survivors, a UN official said earlier today. “It's been more than three days since the disaster happened. We are in a race against time, but the question is whether we will be able to find people'' alive, Serhan Aktoprak, a migration official at the UN mission in Port Moresby, the capital of the South Pacific nation, told AFP. . A hillside village in Enga Province, in the central part of the archipelago, was almost completely wiped out by […]
Source: News Beast

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