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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.
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.