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Papua New Guinea landslide: rescue convoy heads to remote village as scores feared buried

Papua New Guinea landslide: rescue convoy heads to remote village as scores feared buried

Blocked roads have hampered relief efforts to Yambali village, where officials fear death toll could reach well over 100

An emergency convoy is delivering food, water and other provisions on Saturday to stunned survivors of a landslide that devastated a remote village in the mountains of Papua New Guinea and is feared to have buried scores of people, officials have said.

An assessment team had reported “suggestions” that 100 people were dead and 60 houses buried by the mountainside that collapsed in Enga province a few hours before dawn on Friday, according to Serhan Aktoprak, the chief of the International Organisation for Migration’s mission in the South Pacific island nation.

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