Massive landslide have killed many people after it struck six remote villages in Papua New Guinea according to local officials and aid agencies, police said the landslide buried more than 100 homes after it struck at around 03:00 local time today in the highlands of Enga, North of the Island Nation in the South-West Pacific.
It was not immediately clear how many people were trapped in the rubble and no casualties have been officially confirmed.
Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape said his government has sent disaster officials to the landslide site to start relief work, recovery of bodies, and reconstruction of infrastructure.
Images online show dozens of people climbing onto fallen boulders to survey the damage from the landslide as many Houses appeared to have collapsed and trees uprooted.
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