More than 670 feared dead in Papua New Guinea landslide, UN agency says

Hundreds are feared dead in the landslide that levelled a village on May 24 in the Pacific nation north of Australia.

More than six villages have been impacted by the landslide in the province’s Mulitaka region, about 600km from the capital Port Moresby, said Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The IOM said more than 100 houses, an elementary school, small businesses and stalls, a guest house and a petrol station were buried.

At least 26 men were killed in Enga province in February in an ambush amid tribal violence that prompted Prime Minister James Marape to give arrest powers to the country’s military. Papua New Guinea has one of the wettest climates in the world, according to the World Bank, with the heaviest downpours concentrated in the humid highland regions.

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