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SYDNEY -Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape on Wednesday blamed extraordinary rainfall and changes to weather patterns for multiple disasters in the Pacific Island nation this year, including a landslide last week which may have killed thousands...
Parts of a mountain in the Maip-Mulitaka area in Enga province in PNGs north collapsed in the early hours of Friday and Marape said more than 2,000 people are estimated to have died, with up to 70,000 people living in the area impacted by the disaster...
Natural disasters have cost the country more than 500 million kina ($126 million) this year, before the landslide at Enga, he said...
Australias High Commissioner John Feakes said in Enga more plane loads, with supplies and Australian rescue personnel and technical teams would arrive in coming days, the PNG Post-Courier reported...
Every passing minute, bodies buried under the debris are decaying, with water squeezed between the ground and the vast debris covering an area of three to four football fields is continuing to leak, this is posing a high health risk, Serhan Aktoprak, the head of the agencys PNG mission said in an emailed statement...
