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SYDNEY — Papua New Guinea ordered thousands of residents to evacuate from the path of a still-active landslide on Tuesday after parts of a mountain collapsed burying at least 2,000 people, according to government estimates.Officials said the odds of finding survivors were slim, even as relief teams have trickled into the difficult-to-access northern Enga region of the Pacific nation since Friday.
'Complicated' relief effortThe relief operation was extraordinarily complicated, said Nicholas Booth, resident representative at the United Nations Development Programme, with the terrain continuing to move."It means that now, the area that's been affected by the landslide is greater than it was at the beginning. We don't know how it will develop, but that's the nature of the geology in PNG," he said.
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