Papua New Guinea orders thousands to evacuate from path of landslide

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Onlookers react as people clear an area at the site of a landslide in Yambali village in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea on Tuesday, May 27, 2024. UNDP Papua New Guinea/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT.

Thousands of residents were ordered to evacuate from the path of a still-active landslide in Papua New Guinea by the government on Tuesday, after parts of a mountain collapsed, burying an initial estimate of more than 2,000 people.·Onlookers react as people clear an area at the site of a landslide in Yambali village in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea on Monday.

Military personnel have set up checkpoints and are helping move residents to evacuation centres he said. Former head of the local government Jiman Yandam estimated the dead at 162. Only five bodies have been recovered so far.

 

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