MELBOURNE--A Papua New Guinea government official has told the United Nations that more than 2,000 people are believed to have been buried alive by last Friday’s landslide and has formally asked for international help. The government figure is roughly triple the U.N. estimate of 670 killed ...
Melbourne, Australia —More than 100 people are believed to have been killed Friday in a landslide that buried a village in a remote, mountainous part of Papua New Guinea, and an emergency response is underway, the South Pacific island nation's leader and news media said. The landslide report...
Papua New Guinea ends landslide rescue efforts amid fears of another Mass evacuations of more areas around landslide announced in Papua New Guinea Fri Jun 07 2024 - 06:27Video Papua New Guinea: Officials fear waves of disease after landslide More than 2,000 people buried, says country’s ...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Papua New Guinea’s prime minister on Friday visited the site ofa major landslide, which is estimated to have buried hundreds of villagers in the South Pacific island nation’s mountainous interior a week ago and left the ground...
Papua New Guinea’s government has told the United Nations it thinks more than 2,000 people were buried. Aid from Australia to help those in need has arrived in the country and was seen being placed into trucks on Wednesday.
The landslide buried a 200-meter (650-foot) stretch of the province’s main highway. But the highway had been cleared from Yambali to the provincial capital Wabag through to Lae, officials said Tuesday from Enga. “One of the complicating factors was t...
MELBOURNE, Australia--An emergency convoy was delivering food, water and other provisions Saturday to stunned survivors of a landslide that devastated a remote village in the mountains of Papua New Guinea and was feared to have buried scores of people, o
Pope Francis visits Papua New Guinea with humanitarian aid Pope Francis emphasized the importance of the Catholic Church reaching marginalized groups while in Papua New Guinea, a nation stricken by poverty. Sep 8, 2024 More than 2,000 believed buried alive in Papua New Guinea landslide A ...
At around 3:00 a.m. local time on May 24, a massive landslide hit the Mulitaka area in Enga Province. More than 2,000 people were buried alive, with the total affected population estimated to reach about 8,000. (The 13th Chinese medical team to Papua New Guinea/Handout via Xinhua)...
hundreds are feared dead after a massive landslide levelled dozens of homes and buried families alive in a remote village in northern papua new guinea early on friday, a resident said. more than 50 homes, many with people still asleep inside, were buried when the landslide...