Images from the air and the ground have revealed the huge breadth of the devastating landslide that has left as many as 2,000 people buried under rubble in Papua New Guinea.
Satellite imagery from before and after the landslide show a vast section of the landscape in the mountainous Enga region essentially torn away. The vast size of the slide is even more visible from nearer the ground. More than 150 houses in Yambali village were buried in debris, officials said Sunday. The country’s National Disaster Center said almost 2,000 were feared to be buried.
The area has remained unstable, with smaller landslides occurring regularly and endangering rescue workers, Sandis Tsaka told CNN. “We’re getting huge rocks and debris that keep falling down and land further beyond the original landslide area are being impacted,” Tsaka said. He added the government had ordered nearly 7,000 people to evacuate. Evit Kambu said after the disaster that she had lost more than a dozen family members.
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