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Papua New Guinea. More than two thousand buried in landslide
Papua New Guinea's government said Monday that a landslide buried more than 2,000 people on Friday and has made a formal request for international aid.
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The government’s figure is about three times higher than the U.N. estimate of 670.
In a letter to the U.N. resident coordinator dated Sunday, the acting director of the South Pacific island nation’s National Disaster Centre said the landslide “buried alive more than 2,000 people” and caused “massive destruction.”
Estimates of the number of dead have varied widely since the disaster struck, and it was not immediately clear how authorities arrived at the latest figure.
The landslide occurred before dawn Friday, about 3 a.m. (3 p.m. Thursday ET), in the central Enga province, catching residents of the village of Kaokolom by surprise, local officials said.
Heavy rain had been falling for two hours overnight in the provincial capital of Wabag, 37 miles from the devastated village.
Papua New Guinea’s Defense Minister Billy Joseph and the government’s National Disaster Centre director, Laiso Masang, flew by Australian military helicopter Sunday from the capital, Port Moresby, to Yambali, 370 miles to the northwest, to assess the needs.
Papua New Guinea is a developing nation of mostly subsistence farmers that is home to 800 languages. Few roads exist outside major towns.
With a population of 10 million, it is also the most populous nation in the South Pacific after Australia, which has about 27 million people.
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Read Also: UN estimates 670 dead in landslide in Papua New Guinea (Portuguese version)
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