{"id":30044,"date":"2024-05-25T02:19:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T06:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/hundreds-feared-dead-in-papua-new-guinea-landslide\/25\/05\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-05-25T02:19:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T06:19:01","slug":"hundreds-feared-dead-in-papua-new-guinea-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/hundreds-feared-dead-in-papua-new-guinea-landslide\/25\/05\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds Feared Dead in Papua New Guinea Landslide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Unstable rubble and debris were complicating search and rescue efforts in rural Papua New Guinea on Saturday, a day after a massive landslide buried villages and killed at least three people. Local officials said the death toll was likely to be at least in the hundreds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Nearly 4,000 people live in the three villages <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/24\/world\/australia\/papua-new-guinea-landslide.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">engulfed by the landslide<\/a> early Friday, said Sandis Tsaka, the provincial administrator for Enga, which includes the affected area. He said the death toll was likely to be high because the landslide hit a densely populated area that is also a highly trafficked corridor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cOur people will consider it of biblical proportions,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are looking for all the help and support we can get to address the humanitarian disaster of proportions we\u2019ve never seen in this part of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Three bodies were pulled out of the rubble on Friday, and five people, including a child, were treated for their injuries, according to Mr. Tsaka.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The landslide struck around 3 a.m., catching most residents off guard and sending huge boulders, some larger than shipping containers, tumbling down. The landslide buried at least 60 homes under as much as 20 feet of debris, Mr. Tsaka said. At least a<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>500-foot section of the Porgera Highway, the main thoroughfare connecting the area, was inundated by the landslide, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The villages, populated mostly by subsistence farmers, are in the highlands region of Papua New Guinea, an island nation in the Pacific Ocean north of Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Tsaka said that the area was prone to smaller landslides, and<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>in recent months, the weather had been continuously wet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Heavy rain was forecast to continue pummeling the area in the coming days, further hampering rescue efforts. International organizations and the country\u2019s defense forces were arriving to help, according to Mr. Tsaka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Vincent Pyati, president of the local Community Development Association, said the area was a transport node where many came from remote areas<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>overnight to catch public motor vehicles, a popular method of transit, probably adding to the toll. He said there was also a drinking club popular with people from all over the district.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Pyati said at least 300 people were estimated to have been killed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/25\/world\/australia\/papua-new-guinea-landslide.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unstable rubble and debris were complicating search and rescue efforts in rural Papua New Guinea on Saturday, a day after a massive<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/hundreds-feared-dead-in-papua-new-guinea-landslide\/25\/05\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}