By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Further landslides will likely plague the area where part of a mountain collapsed onto a remote village in Papua New Guinea two weeks ago, New Zealand geological experts warned on Friday, as authorities ended search and rescue efforts. It remains unclear how many people died in the massive landslide […]
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 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 remote highlands of the South Pacific nation when a limestone mountainside sheared away on Friday. Serhan Aktoprak, chief […]
Four days after the huge landslide in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, only six bodies have been recovered from the masses of rock about 8 metres deep, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The total affected population, which includes those in need of possible evacuation, is estimated at 7,849, with some 42% of them […]
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 […]
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape is likely to face a no-confidence motion with parliament resuming on Tuesday, after the opposition party nominated Rainbo Paita, who defected from Marape’s cabinet days earlier, as alternate prime minister. Paita, the finance minister, was among several ministers to defect in a group of 18 […]
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. […]
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 […]