MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Authorities in Papua New Guinea were searching on Wednesday for safer ground to relocate thousands of survivors at risk from a potential second landslide in the country’s highlands, while the arrival of heavy earth-moving equipment at the disaster site where hundreds are buried has been delayed, officials said. Emergency responders say […]
Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at the scene of Papua New Guinea’s mass-casualty disaster, a United Nations official said. A mass of boulders, earth and splintered trees devastated the village of Yambali in the South Pacific nation’s remote highlands when a limestone mountainside sheared away on Friday. The blanket […]
Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at the scene of Papua New Guinea’s mass-casualty disaster. Waterways could be at risk of contamination from disaster debris and the rotting corpses of those that remain in the rubble, a United Nations official said on Tuesday. A mass of boulders, earth and splintered […]
Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at the scene of Papua New Guinea’s mass-casualty disaster. Waterways could be at risk of contamination from disaster debris and the rotting corpses of those that remain in the rubble, a United Nations official said on Tuesday. A mass of boulders, earth and splintered […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — 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 and bodies trapped beneath the tons of debris that swept over a village, a United Nations official said Tuesday. A mass of boulders, earth and splintered trees […]
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has secured a second five-year term in a landslide victory over prime minister Ingrida Simonyte. Preliminary figures by Lithuania’s Central Electoral Commission showed that Mr Nauseda won 74.5% of the votes and Ms Simonyte 24.1%. The 60-year-old Mr Nauseda is a moderate conservative and has been a strong backer of Ukraine, […]
The Papua New Guinea government said a landslide on Friday buried more than 2,000 people and has formally asked for international help. The government figure is around three times more than a United Nations estimate of 670. In a letter seen by The Associated Press to the United Nations resident co-ordinator dated Sunday, the acting […]
Australia prepared on Monday to send aircraft and other equipment to help at the site of a deadly landslide in Papua New Guinea. However, poor weather and overnight rains in the South Pacific nation’s mountainous region have sparked new fears that the tons of rubble that buried hundreds of villagers could soon become dangerously unstable. […]
A dramatic photo of a destroyed highway surfaced in social media posts that falsely claimed it showed the aftermath of a deadly road collapse in China’s southern Guangdong province on May 1, 2024. The picture in fact shows a road in Zhejiang province in eastern China that was swept away in a landslide in 2011. […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia prepared on Monday to send aircraft and other equipment to help at the site of a deadly landslide in Papua New Guinea as overnight rains in the South Pacific nation’s mountainous interior raised fears that the tons of rubble that buried hundreds of villagers could become dangerously unstable. Australian Defense […]
The estimated death toll from a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea has soared to more than 670. Serhan Aktoprak, chief of the UN migration agency’s mission in the South Pacific island nation, said the revised death toll is based on calculations by Yambali village and Enga provincial officials that more than 150 homes had […]
Emergency crews in Papua New Guinea are moving survivors of a massive landslide – feared to have buried scores of people – to safer ground as unstable earth and tribal warfare, which is rife in the area, threatens the rescue effort. Rescuers say they have given up hope of finding survivors under earth and rubble […]