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Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea – Rescuers are racing to find survivors after a landslide obliterated a Papua New Guinea village and killed an estimated 670 people, a UN official told AFP on Monday.
“To make things worse, there is groundwater running underneath the debris which is turning the surface of the ground into a slide.”Aid agencies and local leaders initially feared between 100 to 300 people had perished underneath the mud and rubble spanning almost four football fields in length. A schoolteacher from a neighbouring village, Jacob Sowai, said more than 2,000 people lived in the disaster zone.
A nearby mining joint venture, New Porgera Limited, had agreed to provide mechanical diggers to help the rescuers and clear roads, he said. US President Joe Biden earlier said he and First Lady Jill Biden were “heartbroken by the loss of life and devastation”.
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