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Papua New Guinea landslide fears prompt evacuation of 7,900
Papua New Guinea authorities have begun evacuating about 7,900 people from the country's interior because of fears a new landslide could hit, a regional official said Wednesday.
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"We are trying to evacuate," Enga provincial administrator Sandis Tsaka told AFP.
"Every now and then, we hear the rock cracking. It's like a bomb or a gunshot and rocks keep falling," he added.
The evacuation comes after a landslide early Friday virtually wiped out a community in the province.
Papua New Guinea's government said Monday the landslide buried more than 2,000 people and has formally requested international assistance.
The government's figure is about three times higher than an estimate of 670 given by the United Nations.
Despite the scale of the disaster, rescue workers have so far recovered only five bodies and the leg of a sixth person, AFP reported Tuesday.
Estimates of the number of victims have varied widely since the disaster struck, and it was not immediately clear how the government arrived at its figure.
Papua New Guinea's Defense Minister Billy Joseph and the government's National Disaster Centre director, Laso Mana, flew by Australian military helicopter Sunday from the capital, Port Moresby, to Yambali, 600 kilometers (370 miles) to the northwest, to assess the need.
Papua New Guinea is a developing nation of mostly subsistence farmers who speak 800 languages. There are few roads outside major towns.
With 10 million people, it is the South Pacific's most populous nation after Australia, which has about 27 million.
Read Also: Papua New Guinea. More than two thousand buried in landslide (Portuguese version)
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