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Papua New Guinea landslide toll crosses 670
Updated On: 27 May, 2024 07:40 AM IST | Melbourne: | Agencies
“They are estimating that more than 670 people (are) under the soil at the moment,” Aktoprak told The Associated Press
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People clear the mud at the landslide site in Yambali Village, Papua New Guinea. Pic/AFP
The International Organisation for Migration on Sunday increased its estimate of the death toll from a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea to more than 670.
Serhan Aktoprak, the chief of the UN migration agency’s mission in the South Pacific island nation, said the revised death toll was based on calculations by Yambali village and Enga provincial officials that more than 150 homes had been buried by Friday’s landslide. The previous estimate had been 60 homes.
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