Help arrives at Papua New Guinea landslide site

By Agence France-Presse

May 26, 2024 12:53 am

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.

SOMBER PROCESSION Local residents carry a person on a stretcher from the site of a deadly landslide in Yambali Village, in the region of Maip Mulitaka, Enga province, western Papua New Guinea, on May 25, 2024. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION PHOTO VIA AFP

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