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People clear an area at the site of a landslide in Yambali village, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea on May 27, 2024. | Photo Credit: UNDP Papua New Guinea via Reuters Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at the scene of Papua New Guinea’s mass-casualty disaster because of water streams…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi. File photo | Photo Credit: PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, May 28, 2024, expressed grief over the loss of lives and damage wreaked by a devastating landslide in Papua New Guinea, and said India is ready to offer all possible support and assistance. Deeply saddened by the loss of…
Papua New Guinea Landslide: About 7,900 people from remote villages are being evacuated. Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea: It is now “very unlikely” that more victims of a deadly landslide in Papua New Guinea will be found alive, a UN official told AFP on Tuesday. “It is not a rescue mission, it is a recovery…
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People walk over the damaged Togoba Bridge, located on the road from Mount Hagen to the site of a landslide at Mulitaka village in the region of Maip Mulitaka, in Papua New Guinea’s Enga Province on May 28, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Thousands of residents were ordered to evacuate from the path of a…
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A vast smear of yellow and grey debris can be seen cutting through verdant bushland. Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea: Papua New Guinea moved to evacuate an estimated 7,900 people from remote villages near the site of a deadly landslide on Tuesday, as authorities warned of further slips. Some 2,000 people are already feared buried…
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Villagers search through a landslide in Pogera village, in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea on May 26, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Papua New Guinea informed the U.N. on May 27 that more than 2,000 people were buried in a massive landslide that swept over a remote village, according to a copy of the…
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Villagers search through a landslide in Pogera village, in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, on May 26, 2024. The International Organization for Migration feared Sunday the death toll from a massive landslide is much worse than what authorities initially estimated. | Photo Credit: AP The International Organization for Migration on May 26 increased its…
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People gather at the site of a landslide in Maip Mulitaka in Papua New Guinea’s Enga Province on May 24, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP More than 100 people are believed to have been killed Friday, May 24, 2024, in a landslide in a remote part of Papua New Guinea, Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported. Also…
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