PORT MORESBY — Rescue crews arrived at the site of a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea's remote highlands on Saturday, helping villagers search for hundreds of people feared dead under towering mounds of rubble and mud.

The disaster struck an isolated part of Enga province around 3 a.m. on Friday, government officials said, wiping out swathes of the hillside settlement as villagers slept.

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