Michael Fiorentino is an associate producer at NBC News.
A mass of boulders, earth and splintered trees can be seen in new drone footage released Tuesday of the devastation from a landslide that wiped out a village in a remote part of Papua New Guinea. People can be seen pacing back and forth searching for their loved ones in the shadow of the limestone mountainside, part of which sheared away Friday, devastating the village of Yambali in the South Pacific nation’s remote highlands.
The Papua New Guinea government said Monday that more than 2,000 people were buried by the landslide, much higher than the United Nations' figure, which estimated the death toll at 670. It might never be possible to determine the exact number of dead because a 2022 voter roll did not include individuals under 18, who make up a large percentage of the population. The last government census was in 2000.
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