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UN warns of disease risk after Papua New Guinea landslide
Survivors of a deadly Papua New Guinea landslide face a "significant risk of disease outbreak" and are yet to receive sufficient food and clean water supplies, a United Nations agency said Thursday.
Children in shock as aid reaches Papua New Guinea landslide site
Supplies of food and medicine were beginning to arrive at the scene of a deadly landslide in Papua New Guinea Wednesday, with aid workers discovering children rendered mute by the shock of the disaster.
'Unlikely' to be more survivors from Papua New Guinea landslide
It is "very unlikely" more survivors of Papua New Guinea's deadly landslide will be found, a U.N. agency warned Tuesday, as thousands at risk from further slips were ordered to evacuate.
Some 2,000 people are feared buried by a massive landslide that entombed a remote highland community in the early hours of May 24.
Tragic Landslide in Papua New Guinea Buries Thousands Alive!
The National Disaster Center of Papua New Guinea has reported a devastating landslide in a remote village in the northern region, burying over 2,000 people beneath the debris. Initially estimated to have claimed around 100 lives, the death toll has tragically soared since the disaster unfolded.
Papua New Guinea reports more than 2,000 people buried in landslide
Papua New Guinea informed the U.N. on Monday that more than 2,000 people were buried in a massive landslide that swept over a remote village, according to a copy of the letter obtained by AFP.
"The landslide buried more than 2,000 people alive and caused major destruction," the country's national disaster centre told the U.N. office in Port Moresby.
More than 100 feared dead in Papua New Guinea after deadly landslide
Rescue teams arrived at the site of a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea's remote highlands Saturday, helping villagers search for hundreds of people feared dead under towering mounds of rubble and mud.
The disaster hit an isolated part of Enga province at around 3:00 am Friday, according to government officials, when many villagers were at home asleep.
Massive landslide hits Papua New Guinea, many feared dead
A massive landslide struck Papua New Guinea's highlands Friday, local officials and aid groups said, with many feared dead.
The disaster hit in Kaokalam village, in Papua New Guinea's remote Enga province at around 3:00 am local time.
Provincial governor Peter Ipatas told AFP that a big landslide had caused "loss of life and property".