Port Moresby (AFP) May 29, 2024 - Papua New Guinea s estimate that 2,000 people were buried in a highland landslide was called into question Wednesday, with satellite imagery, disaster experts and local officials suggesting the toll is much lower.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Authorities in Papua New Guinea were searching Wednesday for safer ground to relocate thousands of survivors at risk from a potential second landslide in the South Pacific country s highlands, while the arrival of heavy earth-moving equipment at the disaster site where hundreds are buried has been delayed, officials said.
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