More than 670 people are believed to be dead after a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea, a UN official told AFP on Sunday as aid workers and villagers braved perilous conditions in their search for survivors.
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. – Rescue teams began arriving at the site of a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea ’s remote highlands on May 25, helping villagers search for the scores of people feared dead under the towering mounds of rubble and mud.
The unforgiving terrain, damaged roads and an outbreak of tribal violence nearby have seriously hamstrung efforts to get help into the disaster zone. But the death toll grew after local leaders and disaster workers realised official figures underestimated the population, Aktoprak said.This number is expected to start climbing in the coming days as diggers and other heavy machinery speed up the painstaking excavations.
At some points, the landslide — a mix of car-sized boulders, uprooted trees and churned-up earth — was thought to be eight metres deep. Oriyomi Hamzat, the radio host of "Kokoro Alate," a family-related issues program aired on Agidigbo 88.7 FM in Ibadan, Oyo State, has announced plans to organise a free DNA outreach in Ilorin, Kwara State. This was disclosed in a video posted on the X handle of a user known simply as Oluwafifehanmi. During one of…
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