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Survivors of a deadly Papua New Guinea landslide face a "significant risk of disease outbreak" and are yet to receive sufficient food and clean water supplies, a United Nations agency said Thursday.Six days after a mountainside community was buried in a sea of soil, boulders and debris, the United Nations' migration agency said water sources had become tainted and the risk of disease was soaring.
Enga provincial administrator Sandis Tsaka said it has not been possible to get such machinery, engineers or technical offers to the site yet "because of the risk of unstable land movement".'Heads above water' Aid agencies and foreign donors are also concerned that unreliable estimates about the number of dead, injured and displaced are complicating the international response.
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