The Papua New Guinea Post Courier reported the increased death toll and said 1182 houses were destroyed, citing an MP.
More than 300 people and 1000 houses are believed buried by a massive landslide that levelled a remote village in northern Papua New Guinea on Friday.
Residents from surrounding areas said boulders and trees from a collapsed mountainside buried parts of the community and left it isolated. “The land still continues sliding; therefore it makes it very difficult to operate on,” he said, citing firsthand reports from IOM staff and others deployed from the provincial capital to the affected village.
CARE Australia confirmed the reports of a landslide in Yambali village. In a statement, it said highway access near Yambali was obstructed and hindering assessment and relief efforts.
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