Families in Yambali village in Papua New Guinea were sleeping peacefully in their beds when a "mountain" of rubble buried them alive in a gigantic landslide, said a U.N. rescue worker at the disaster site and the country's prime minister. "It's basically a mountain that has fallen on their heads," said Mate Bagossy, who is with the United Nations Development Programme helping relief efforts in remote Yambali in the northern Enga Province. "Our people in that village went to sleep for the last time, not knowing they would breathe their last breath as they were sleeping peacefully," Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape told parliament on Wednesday.
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