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Fears rise a second landslide and disease outbreak loom at site of Papua New Guinea disaster

Thousands of residents in Papua New Guinea are evacuating due to an active landslide, with over 2,000 people buried by a mountain collapse.
Aid agencies report over 1,000 individuals displaced already from the disaster.
The landslide site remains volatile, with ongoing rock and debris falls, and only five bodies recovered out of an estimated 2,000 buried.

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The Guardian

Papua New Guinea landslide: the search for survivors – in pictures

Country’s disaster agency has estimated that 2,000 people were buried in last week’s landslide but true extent of catastrophe remains unclear

2 months ago·London, United Kingdom

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The Hindu

Papua New Guinea disaster: U.N. warns of second landslide, disease outbreak

The Papua New Guinea government has officially asked the United Nations for additional help and to coordinate contributions from individual nations

2 months ago·India

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CTV News

Fears rise of a second landslide and disease outbreak at site of Papua New Guinea disaster

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. Thousands are being told to prepare to evacuate, officials said Tuesday.

2 months ago·Canada

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The Independent

Authorities in Papua New Guinea search for safer ground for thousands of landslide survivors

Authorities in Papua New Guinea are searching 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

2 months ago·London, United Kingdom

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CBC News

Papua New Guinea orders thousands to evacuate from path of landslide

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.

2 months ago·Canada

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NDTV

Survivors "Unlikely" From Papua New Guinea Landslide: UN Official

It is now "very unlikely" that more victims of a deadly landslide in Papua New Guinea will be found alive, a UN official told AFP on Tuesday. "It is not a rescue mission, it is a recovery mission," UNICEF Papua New Guinea's Niels Kraaier said. "It is very unlikely they will have survived." Papua New Guinea says some 2,000 people are feared buried in a landslide that destroyed a remote highland community in the early hours of May 24. With rescue …

2 months ago·New Delhi, India

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