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Papua New Guinea Landslide Death Toll Exceeds 670, Says UN Agency

Emergency workers give up hope of finding survivors of Friday’s landslide as tribal warfare threatens rescue effort

Papua New Guinea government says Fridays' landslide buried 2,000 people and formally asks for help

The Guardian 27 MAY 2024

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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The government figure is around three times more than a United Nations’ estimate of 670

More than 670 people were believed to have been killed in a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea, the UN migration agency has said, as emergency workers and relatives gave up hope that any survivors would be found.

The death toll from the landslide on Friday had been estimated at more than 300, but 48 hours later the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said it may be more than double that, with the full extent of destruction still unclear.

Only five bodies had been retrieved from the rubble so far, the agency said, while aid and rescue efforts in the mission in the South Pacific island nation, about 1,400 miles (2,300km) north of Australia, were being hindered by dangerous conditions on the ground.

The chief of the IOM’s mission to Papua New Guinea, Serhan Aktoprak, said the toll was based on calculations by local and provincial officials that more than 150 homes had been buried by the landslide. A previous estimate had been 60 homes.

“Land is still sliding, rocks are falling, ground soil is cracking due to constant increased pressure and ground water is running, thus the area is posing an extreme risk for everyone,” Aktoprak said in a statement.

More than 250 houses near the stricken area of Yambali village in Enga province had been abandoned and about 1,250 people had been displaced, the agency said, with many taking temporary shelter with relatives and friends.

“People are using digging sticks, spades, large agricultural forks to remove the bodies buried under the soil,” Aktoprak said. The revised toll was “not solid” because it was based on the average size of families per household in the region, he said.