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Papua New Guinea landslide toll crosses 670

Updated on: 27 May,2024 07:40 AM IST  |  Melbourne:
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“They are estimating that more than 670 people (are) under the soil at the moment,” Aktoprak told The Associated Press

Papua New Guinea landslide toll crosses 670

People clear the mud at the landslide site in Yambali Village, Papua New Guinea. Pic/AFP

The International Organisation for Migration on Sunday increased its estimate of the death toll from a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea to more than 670.


Serhan Aktoprak, the chief of the UN migration agency’s mission in the South Pacific island nation, said the revised death toll was based on calculations by Yambali village and Enga provincial officials that more than 150 homes had been buried by Friday’s landslide. The previous estimate had been 60 homes.


“They are estimating that more than 670 people (are) under the soil at the moment,” Aktoprak told The Associated Press.


Local officials had initially put the death toll on Friday at 100 or more. Only five bodies and a leg of a sixth victim had been recovered by Sunday.

Emergency responders in Papua New Guinea were moving survivors to safer ground on Sunday as tons of unstable earth and tribal warfare, which is rife in the country’s Highlands, threatened the rescue effort.

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