An official death toll has still not been reported, but locals estimate the number to be higher than 100.
Humanitarian organisations say urgent supplies of food, water and shelter are needed following a huge landslide in PNG on Friday.The Australian government has begun mobilising supplies from Port Moresby and Brisbane and releasing funds to assist with the response.
Around 60 houses – each believed to contain up to 15 people – were flattened when the side of a mountain gave way, locals report. In February, a massacre between warring clans saw around 50 people killed and many more forced to flee their homes.More than 100 people are believed to have been killed in a landslide that buried a village in a remote, mountainous part of Papua New Guinea, with helicopters the only way of accessing the region."Those communities were hosting people displaced from other communities, so it really multiplies the number of people affected," she said.
She said the UNDP would deploy drones and UNICEF would supply satellite imagery to help assess the damage tomorrow. An official death toll has not yet been reported, but locals estimate the number to be higher than 100.
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