An emergency convoy is delivering food, water and other provisions to stunned survivors of a landslide that devastated a remote village in the mountains of Papua New Guinea and is feared to have buried scores of people
An emergency convoy was delivering food, water and other provisions Saturday to stunned survivors of a landslide that devastated a remote village in the mountains of Papua New Guinea and was feared to have buried scores of people, officials said.
All food gardens that sustain the village's subsistence farming population were destroyed and the three streams that provide drinking water were buried by the landslide, which also blocked the province’s main highway. A convoy left the provincial capital of Wabag carrying food, water and other essentials to the devastated village 60 kilometers away, Aktoprak said. Village local Andrew Ruing said the survivors’ were in desperate need.
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