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UN MIGRATION AGENCY ESTIMATES MORE THAN 670 KILLED IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA LANDSLIDE

The International Organization for Migration has increased its estimate of the
death toll from a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea to more than 670.

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In this photo provided by the International Organization for Migration, an
injured person is carried on a stretcher to seek medical assistance after a
landslide in Yambali village, Papua New Guinea, Friday, May 24, 2024. More than
100 people are believed to have been killed in the landslide that buried a
village and an emergency response is underway, officials in the South Pacific
island nation said. The landslide struck Enga province, about 600 kilometers
(370 miles) northwest of the capital, Port Moresby, at roughly 3 a.m.,
Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported. (Benjamin Sipa/International
Organization for Migration via AP)
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In this photo provided by the International Organization for Migration, people
cross over the landslide area to get to the other side in Yambali village, Papua
New Guinea, Friday, May 24, 2024. More than 100 people are believed to have been
killed in the landslide that buried a village and an emergency response is
underway, officials in the South Pacific island nation said. The landslide
struck Enga province, about 600 kilometers (370 miles) northwest of the capital,
Port Moresby, at roughly 3 a.m., Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
(Benjamin Sipa/International Organization for Migration via AP)
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In this photo provided by the International Organization for Migration, an
injured person is carried on a stretcher to seek medical assistance after a
landslide in Yambali village, Papua New Guinea, Friday, May 24, 2024. More than
100 people are believed to have been killed in the landslide that buried a
village and an emergency response is underway, officials in the South Pacific
island nation said. The landslide struck Enga province, about 600 kilometers
(370 miles) northwest of the capital, Port Moresby, at roughly 3 a.m.,
Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported. (Benjamin Sipa/International
Organization for Migration via AP)
ROD MCGUIRK
ASSOCIATED PRESS
May 26, 2024
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The International Organization for Migration on
Sunday increased its estimate of the death toll from a massive landslide in
Papua New Guinea to more than 670.

Serhan Aktoprak, the chief of the U.N. migration agency's mission in the South
Pacific island nation, said the revised death toll was based on calculations by
Yambali village and Enga provincial officials that more than 150 homes had been
buried by Friday's landslide. The previous estimate had been 60 homes.

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“They are estimating that more than 670 people (are) under the soil at the
moment,” Aktoprak told The Associated Press.

Local officials had initially put the death toll on Friday at 100 or more. Only
five bodies and a leg of a sixth victim had been recovered by Sunday.

Emergency responders in Papua New Guinea were moving survivors to safer ground
on Sunday as tons of unstable earth and tribal warfare, which is rife in the
country's Highlands, threatened the rescue effort.



The South Pacific island’s government meanwhile is considering whether it needs
to officially request more international support.

Crews have given up hope of finding survivors under earth and rubble 6 to 8
meters (20 to 26 feet) deep, Aktoprak said.

“People are coming to terms with this so there is a serious level of grieving
and mourning,” he said.

Government authorities were establishing evacuation centers on safer ground on
either side of the massive swath of debris that covers an area the size of three
to four football fields and has cut the main highway through the province.

“Working across the debris is very dangerous and the land is still sliding,”
Aktoprak said.

Beside the blocked highway, convoys that have transported food, water and other
essential supplies since Saturday to the devastated village 60 kilometers (35
miles) from the provincial capital, Wabag, have faced risks related to tribal
fighting in Tambitanis village, about halfway along the route. Papua New Guinea
soldiers were providing security for the convoys.

Eight locals were killed in a clash between two rival clans on Saturday in a
longstanding dispute unrelated to the landslide. Around 30 homes and five retail
businesses were burned down in the fighting, local officials said.

Aktoprak said he did not expect tribal combatants would target the convoys but
noted that opportunistic criminals might take advantage of the mayhem to do so.

“This could basically end up in carjacking or robbery,” Aktoprak said. “There is
not only concern for the safety and security of the personnel, but also the
goods because they may use this chaos as a means to steal.”

Longtime tribal warfare has cast doubt on the official estimate that almost
4,000 people were living in the village when a side of Mount Mungalo fell away.

Justine McMahon, country director of the humanitarian agency CARE International,
said moving survivors to “more stable ground” was an immediate priority along
with providing them with food, water and shelter. The military was leading those
efforts.



The numbers of injured and missing were still being assessed on Sunday. Seven
people including a child had received medical treatment by Saturday, but
officials had no details on their conditions.

Medical facilities were buried along with houses, several small businesses, a
guest house, school and gas station, officials said.

McMahon said there were other health facilities in the region, the provincial
government was sending health workers and the World Health Organization was
mobilizing staff.

“There will be some support, but it's such a spread-out area that I think it
will be quite a challenging situation,” McMahon said. “The scale of this
disaster is quite immense.”

While Papua New Guinea is in the tropics, the village is 2,000 meters (6,600
feet) above sea level where temperatures are substantially cooler.

Papua New Guinea Defense Minister Billy Joseph and the government’s National
Disaster Center director Laso Mana were flying from Port Moresby by helicopter
to Wabag on Sunday to gain a firsthand perspective of what is needed.

Aktoprak expected the government would decide by Tuesday whether it would
officially request more international help.

The United States and Australia, a near neighbor and Papua New Guinea’s most
generous provider of foreign aid, are among governments that have publicly
stated their readiness to do more to help responders.

Papua New Guinea is a diverse, developing nation with 800 languages and 10
million people who are mostly subsistence farmers.

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