Papua New Guinea landslide buries alive 300+ villagers — report

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Landslide in Pacific nation buries more than 300 people and 1,182 houses, reports Papua New Guinea Post Courier, citing comments from a lawmaker.

This handout photo by the International Organization for Migration on May 25, 2024 shows locals carrying a person on a stretcher from the site of a landslide at Yambali Village in the region of Maip Mulitaka, in Papua New Guinea's Enga Province. / Photo: AFP

"While the area is not densely populated, our concern is that the death toll could be disproportionately high," humanitarian agency CARE said on Saturday as the first reinforcements began trickling into the site. Prime Minister James Marape said in a statement that his government had sent officials from the country's disaster agency to meet Enga's provincial and district authorities, and carry out the rescue and relief efforts, as well as the reconstruction of infrastructure.

Images showed a scene of total devastation, with a vast bite of earth cleaved from densely vegetated Mount Mungalo.

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